340 Eduarda
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
340 Eduarda is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Max Wolf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Heinrich Eduard von Lade[5]
- Follows: 339 Dorothea[6]
- Followed by: 341 California[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 340 Eduarda[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: A892 SD[11], 1954 FA[12], 1959 JT[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 25, 1892[14]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1182963488196325[17]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.99[18]
- Orbital inclination: 4.679 degree[19], 4.665338951878603 degree[20]
- Orbital period: 1662.924614188399 day[21]
- Rotation period: 8.0062 hour[22]
- Longitude of ascending node: 26.89495908721384 degree[23]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.746941579690549 astronomical unit[24]
- Apoapsis: 3.071894738988774 astronomical unit[25]
- Periapsis: 2.421988420392323 astronomical unit[26]
- Argument of periapsis: 42.97022423441605 degree[27]
- Mean anomaly: 38.54566079799292 degree[28]
- Diameter: 28.025 km[29]
- Albedo: 0.247[30]
Why It Matters
340 Eduarda has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]