382 Dodona
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
382 Dodona is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Auguste Charlois[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Nice Observatory[4]
- Named after: Dodona[5]
- Follows: 381 Myrrha[6]
- Followed by: 383 Janina[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 382 Dodona[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1894 AT[11], A894 BB[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 29, 1894[13]
- Asteroid spectral type: M-type asteroid[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1649618747904815[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 8.78[17]
- Orbital inclination: 7.403 degree[18], 7.400436472937162 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 2027.660045795215 day[20]
- Rotation period: 4.113 hour[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 313.0840222346072 degree[22]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.135194422448659 astronomical unit[23]
- Apoapsis: 3.652381972208451 astronomical unit[24]
- Periapsis: 2.618006872688868 astronomical unit[25]
- Argument of periapsis: 270.9880774769648 degree[26]
- Mean anomaly: 252.8419691283827 degree[27]
- Diameter: 65.209 km[28]
- Albedo: 0.129[29]
Why It Matters
382 Dodona has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]