484 Pittsburghia
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
484 Pittsburghia is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (30 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Max Wolf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Pittsburgh[5]
- Follows: 483 Seppina[6]
- Followed by: 485 Genua[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 484 Pittsburghia[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1902 HX[11], 1936 EB[12], 1963 HB[13], A902 HA[14]
- Time of discovery or invention: April 29, 1902[15]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.05676909272588782[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.69[19]
- Orbital inclination: 12.497 degree[20], 12.51379145900819 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 1591.208164275884 day[22]
- Rotation period: 10.63 hour[23]
- Longitude of ascending node: 127.2279642426452 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.667385060052846 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 2.818810089862634 astronomical unit[26]
- Periapsis: 2.515960030243058 astronomical unit[27]
- Argument of periapsis: 189.3421812909244 degree[28]
- Mean anomaly: 35.97042993705026 degree[29]
- Diameter: 30.06 km[30]
- Albedo: 0.222[31]
Why It Matters
484 Pittsburghia has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]