387 Aquitania
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
387 Aquitania 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: Fernand Courty[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Bordeaux Observatory[4]
- Named after: Gallia Aquitania[5]
- Follows: 386 Siegena[6]
- Followed by: 388 Charybdis[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 387 Aquitania[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: A894 EC[11], 1945 NA[12], 1948 BG[13], 1953 EO1[14]
- Time of discovery or invention: March 5, 1894[15]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[16], L-type asteroid[17]
- Significant event: naming[18]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2383510981493381[19]
- Absolute magnitude: 7.49[20]
- Orbital inclination: 18.132 degree[21], 18.14877101697493 degree[22]
- Mass: 1.8 exagram[23]
- Orbital period: 1653.600851676674 day[24]
- Rotation period: 24.144 hour[25]
- Longitude of ascending node: 127.9914806884353 degree[26]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.736664174793998 astronomical unit[27]
- Apoapsis: 3.3889510861221 astronomical unit[28]
- Periapsis: 2.084377263465897 astronomical unit[29]
- Argument of periapsis: 157.7527235600954 degree[30]
- Mean anomaly: 262.2038664109041 degree[31]
- Diameter: 100.51 km[32]
Why It Matters
387 Aquitania has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]