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445 Edna

outer main-belt asteroid
Thing asteroid Q154133
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Summary

445 Edna is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 37 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Edwin Foster Coddington[3]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Lick Observatory[4]
  • Follows: 444 Gyptis[5]
  • Followed by: 446 Aeternitas[6]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
  • Provisional designation: A899 TC[9], 1978 PJ5[10], A918 CB[11]
  • Time of discovery or invention: October 2, 1899[12]
  • Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[13]
  • Significant event: naming[14]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.1985154889645868[15]
  • Absolute magnitude: 9.29[16]
  • Orbital inclination: 21.347 degree[17], 21.31802102870238 degree[18]
  • Orbital period: 2089.140946821433 day[19]
  • Rotation period: 19.959 hour[20]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 291.9608262126586 degree[21]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.19825344423603 astronomical unit[22]
  • Apoapsis: 3.833156290551219 astronomical unit[23]
  • Periapsis: 2.56335059792084 astronomical unit[24]
  • Argument of periapsis: 82.15904017858699 degree[25]
  • Mean anomaly: 55.48514500768118 degree[26]
  • Diameter: 87.812 km[27]
  • Albedo: 0.044[28]
  • Epoch: November 21, 2025[29]
  • Time of periapsis: 2460678.510310067 Julian day[30]

Why It Matters

445 Edna is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

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] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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.
  28. [30] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22h ago · Kwamikagami · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Rotation period → {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+19.959'}
    Longitude of ascending node → {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+291.9608262126586'}
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'ca', 'ce', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'hu',
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