334 Chicago
outer main-belt asteroid
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Summary
334 Chicago is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (36 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Max Wolf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Chicago[5]
- Follows: 333 Badenia[6]
- Followed by: 335 Roberta[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8], outer asteroid belt[9]
- Commons category: 334 Chicago[10]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[11]
- Provisional designation: A892 QB[12], A903 HA[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: August 23, 1892[14]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.02497436761980406[17]
- Absolute magnitude: 7.62[18]
- Different from: Chicago[19]
- Orbital inclination: 4.641 degree[20], 4.688943221980113 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 2864.149871197028 day[22]
- Rotation period: 7.361 hour[23]
- Longitude of ascending node: 129.141206291635 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.94697953874135 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 4.045552856729722 astronomical unit[26]
- Periapsis: 3.848406220752979 astronomical unit[27]
- Argument of periapsis: 191.0926209273364 degree[28]
- Mean anomaly: 143.2420600952796 degree[29]
- Diameter: 198.77 km[30]
Why It Matters
334 Chicago has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]