402920 Tsawout

Summary

402920 Tsawout is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 402920 Tsawout is credited with the discovery of David D. Balam^[3].
• 402920 Tsawout's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 402920 Tsawout's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Mauna Kea Observatories^[5].
• 402920 Tsawout's minor planet group is recorded as outer asteroid belt^[6].
• 402920 Tsawout's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[7].
• 402920 Tsawout's provisional designation is recorded as 2009 BZ20^[8].
• 402920 Tsawout's provisional designation is recorded as 2007 TH142^[9].
• 402920 Tsawout's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2007-10-07T00:00:00Z^[10].
• 402920 Tsawout's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20402920^[11].
• 402920 Tsawout's significant event is recorded as naming^[12].
• 402920 Tsawout's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.28'}^[13].
• 402920 Tsawout's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.2722027460436463'}^[14].
• 402920 Tsawout's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.7'}^[15].
• 402920 Tsawout's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.76'}^[16].
• 402920 Tsawout's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+12.1'}^[17].
• 402920 Tsawout's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+12.12010497586503'}^[18].
• 402920 Tsawout's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2847.196667023325'}^[19].
• 402920 Tsawout's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+117.8'}^[20].
• 402920 Tsawout's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+117.5323750060194'}^[21].
• 402920 Tsawout's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.93138907524236'}^[22].
• 402920 Tsawout's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.001523977289321'}^[23].
• 402920 Tsawout's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.861254173195399'}^[24].
• 402920 Tsawout's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+274.5'}^[25].
• 402920 Tsawout's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+273.319231254095'}^[26].
• 402920 Tsawout's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+353.3'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

402920 Tsawout's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].

Why It Matters

402920 Tsawout ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]