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432 Pythia

main-belt asteroid
Place asteroid Q153548
432 Pythia
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Summary

432 Pythia is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (60 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Auguste Charlois[3]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Nice Observatory[4]
  • Named after: Pythia[5]
  • Follows: 431 Nephele[6]
  • Followed by: 433 Eros[7]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
  • Commons category: 432 Pythia[9]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
  • Provisional designation: A897 YC[11], 1936 PR[12]
  • Time of discovery or invention: December 18, 1897[13]
  • Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[14]
  • Significant event: naming[15]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.1446507301630472[16]
  • Absolute magnitude: 9.09[17]
  • Orbital inclination: 12.13 degree[18], 12.11604990110865 degree[19]
  • Orbital period: 1333.536279135755 day[20]
  • Rotation period: 8.252 hour[21]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 88.7250790767801 degree[22]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.371033038589921 astronomical unit[23]
  • Apoapsis: 2.714004698862662 astronomical unit[24]
  • Periapsis: 2.02806137831718 astronomical unit[25]
  • Argument of periapsis: 174.06453398 degree[26]
  • Mean anomaly: 203.260438638748 degree[27]
  • Diameter: 46.9 km[28]
  • Albedo: 0.2338[29]

Why It Matters

432 Pythia has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

Auguste Charlois

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Kwamikagami · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Follows → 431 Nephele
    Time of periapsis → {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2461581.105254031'}
    Instance of → —
    Significant event → naming
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Astronomic symbol image: Pythia symbol (fixed width).svg"
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