321197 Qingdao

Summary

321197 Qingdao is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 321197 Qingdao's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[3].
• Qingdao is named after 321197 Qingdao^[4].
• 321197 Qingdao's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[5].
• 321197 Qingdao's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[6].
• 321197 Qingdao's provisional designation is recorded as 2008 YK8^[7].
• 321197 Qingdao's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2008-12-23T00:00:00Z^[8].
• 321197 Qingdao's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20321197^[9].
• 321197 Qingdao's significant event is recorded as naming^[10].
• 321197 Qingdao's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.04244918854951965'}^[11].
• 321197 Qingdao's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+16.5'}^[12].
• 321197 Qingdao's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+6.244178397129369'}^[13].
• 321197 Qingdao's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+1624.234786187993'}^[14].
• 321197 Qingdao's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+95.10700661720671'}^[15].
• 321197 Qingdao's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.704167488664201'}^[16].
• 321197 Qingdao's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.818957204259989'}^[17].
• 321197 Qingdao's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.589377773068413'}^[18].
• 321197 Qingdao's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+221.3593327587757'}^[19].
• 321197 Qingdao's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+71.4200949177374'}^[20].
• 321197 Qingdao's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q828224', 'amount': '+2.886'}^[21].
• 321197 Qingdao's albedo is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.066'}^[22].
• 321197 Qingdao's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 321197^[23].
• 321197 Qingdao's epoch is recorded as November 21, 2025^[24].
• 321197 Qingdao's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2460678.269437227'}^[25].

Body

Designation and Status

321197 Qingdao's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[3].

History and Context

Qingdao is named after 321197 Qingdao^[4].

Why It Matters

321197 Qingdao ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2]