31876 Jenkens
asteroid
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Summary
31876 Jenkens is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Catalina Sky Survey[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Catalina Station[4]
- Follows: 31875 Saksena[5]
- Followed by: 31877 Davideverett[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
- Provisional designation: 1992 OR[9], 1999 AU28[10], 2000 EA142[11], 2000 JM19[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: March 2, 2000[13]
- Significant event: naming[14]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.26[15], 0.2568953[16], 0.2572265425003667[17]
- Absolute magnitude: 14.5[18], 14.52[19]
- Orbital inclination: 13.71984 degree[20], 13.71805069884003 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 4.15 years[22], 1513.955815342949 day[23]
- Longitude of ascending node: 130.73995 degree[24], 130.7161084156396 degree[25]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.5810104 astronomical unit[26], 2.580337510282578 astronomical unit[27]
- Apoapsis: 3.244 astronomical unit[28], 3.244068806536569 astronomical unit[29]
- Periapsis: 1.9179611 astronomical unit[30], 1.916606214028586 astronomical unit[31]
- Argument of periapsis: 160.38710 degree[32], 160.1453875458645 degree[33]
- Mean anomaly: 171.63572 degree[34], 22.69437265564681 degree[35]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[36]
- Time of periapsis: 2460905.0603403957 Julian day[37]
Why It Matters
31876 Jenkens is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]