486 Cremona
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
486 Cremona is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Luigi Carnera[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Cremona[5]
- Follows: 485 Genua[6]
- Followed by: 487 Venetia[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 486 Cremona[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1902 JB[11], 1949 MX[12], A902 MA[13], A913 MA[14], A902 JD[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: May 11, 1902[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.163666062765288[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 11.15[19]
- Orbital inclination: 11.077 degree[20], 11.09535384889603 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 1317.273848513221 day[22]
- Rotation period: 65.15 hour[23]
- Longitude of ascending node: 94.06476900507337 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.35171719935437 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 2.736613494110109 astronomical unit[26]
- Periapsis: 1.96682090459863 astronomical unit[27]
- Argument of periapsis: 125.1846214595977 degree[28]
- Mean anomaly: 99.90285521094567 degree[29]
- Diameter: 22.781 km[30]
- Albedo: 0.15[31]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[32]
Why It Matters
486 Cremona has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]