466 Tisiphone
outer main-belt asteroid
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Summary
466 Tisiphone is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (36 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Max Wolf[3], Luigi Carnera[4]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[5]
- Named after: Tisiphone[6]
- Follows: 465 Alekto[7]
- Followed by: 467 Laura[8]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[9], outer asteroid belt[10]
- Commons category: 466 Tisiphone[11]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[12]
- Provisional designation: 1901 FX[13], 1953 NP[14], A901 BB[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 17, 1901[16]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[17]
- Significant event: naming[18]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.0970667132751377[19]
- Absolute magnitude: 8.41[20]
- Orbital inclination: 19.01517156502678 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 2241.355565021111 day[22]
- Rotation period: 8.834 hour[23]
- Longitude of ascending node: 290.2239057834205 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.351775230896444 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 3.677121036196577 astronomical unit[26]
- Periapsis: 3.02642942559631 astronomical unit[27]
- Argument of periapsis: 255.7804751205712 degree[28]
- Mean anomaly: 18.25237828444602 degree[29]
- Diameter: 95.495 km[30]
- Albedo: 0.092[31]
Why It Matters
466 Tisiphone has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]