464 Megaira
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
464 Megaira is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 39 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Max Wolf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Megaera[5]
- Follows: 463 Lola[6]
- Followed by: 465 Alekto[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1901 FV[10], 1929 AH[11], A912 JB[12], A912 JC[13], A916 FD[14], A901 AB[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 9, 1901[16]
- Asteroid spectral type: F-type asteroid[17], C-type asteroid[18]
- Significant event: naming[19]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2038509242284666[20]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.71[21]
- Orbital inclination: 10.16244746277442 degree[22]
- Orbital period: 1714.426278063787 day[23]
- Rotation period: 12.879 hour[24]
- Longitude of ascending node: 102.3183277311266 degree[25]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.803368948736562 astronomical unit[26]
- Apoapsis: 3.374838299889896 astronomical unit[27]
- Periapsis: 2.231899597583229 astronomical unit[28]
- Argument of periapsis: 257.9933625027652 degree[29]
- Mean anomaly: 313.8075748374589 degree[30]
- Diameter: 77.056 km[31]
- Albedo: 0.045[32]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[33]
Why It Matters
464 Megaira is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]