471 Papagena
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
471 Papagena is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (40 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Max Wolf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Papagena[5]
- Follows: 470 Kilia[6]
- Followed by: 472 Roma[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 471 Papagena[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1901 GN[11], A911 MB[12], A901 LA[13]
- Catalog code: 1901 GN[14], A911 MB[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: June 7, 1901[16]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[17]
- Significant event: naming[18]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2290647534697144[19]
- Apparent magnitude: 11.200[20]
- Absolute magnitude: 6.33[21]
- Orbital inclination: 14.985 degree[22], 15.0190422413604 degree[23]
- Density: 2 gram per cubic centimetre[24]
- Mass: 2,530,000,000,000,000,000 kg[25]
- Orbital period: 1793.20521296876 day[26]
- Rotation period: 7.113 hour[27]
- Longitude of ascending node: 83.77122752910873 degree[28]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.888602019676308 astronomical unit[29]
- Apoapsis: 3.55027892918558 astronomical unit[30]
- Periapsis: 2.226925110167036 astronomical unit[31]
Why It Matters
471 Papagena 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]