344 Desiderata
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
344 Desiderata is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Auguste Charlois[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Nice Observatory[4]
- Named after: Désirée Clary[5]
- Follows: 343 Ostara[6]
- Followed by: 345 Tercidina[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 344 Desiderata[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1892 M[11], A892 WA[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: November 15, 1892[13]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.3138474551587517[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 8.3[17]
- Orbital inclination: 18.355 degree[18], 18.35133398246353 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 1528.094408892286 day[20]
- Rotation period: 10.747 hour[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 47.99341869571736 degree[22]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.596377517754088 astronomical unit[23]
- Apoapsis: 3.411243994332605 astronomical unit[24]
- Periapsis: 1.781511041175571 astronomical unit[25]
- Argument of periapsis: 237.3691842991392 degree[26]
- Mean anomaly: 22.23305687701716 degree[27]
- Diameter: 124.181 km[28]
- Albedo: 0.067[29]
Why It Matters
344 Desiderata has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]