487 Venetia

Summary

487 Venetia is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 487 Venetia is credited with the discovery of Luigi Carnera^[3].
• 487 Venetia's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 487 Venetia's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory^[5].
• Veneto is named after 487 Venetia^[6].
• 487 Venetia's follows is recorded as 486 Cremona^[7].
• 487 Venetia's followed by is recorded as Q154811^[8].
• 487 Venetia's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[9].
• 487 Venetia's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[10].
• 487 Venetia's provisional designation is recorded as 1902 JL^[11].
• 487 Venetia's provisional designation is recorded as A902 NC^[12].
• 487 Venetia's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1902-07-09T00:00:00Z^[13].
• 487 Venetia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08lvqh^[14].
• 487 Venetia's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000487^[15].
• 487 Venetia's asteroid spectral type is recorded as S-type asteroid^[16].
• 487 Venetia's significant event is recorded as naming^[17].
• 487 Venetia's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.0862307104520819'}^[18].
• 487 Venetia's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+8.43'}^[19].
• 487 Venetia's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+10.229'}^[20].
• 487 Venetia's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+10.253488925644'}^[21].
• 487 Venetia's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1593.064586211191'}^[22].
• 487 Venetia's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+13.34'}^[23].
• 487 Venetia's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+114.7517701754241'}^[24].
• 487 Venetia's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.669459303549312'}^[25].
• 487 Venetia's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.899648675817288'}^[26].
• 487 Venetia's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.439269931281335'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

487 Venetia's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].

History and Context

Veneto is named after 487 Venetia^[6].

Why It Matters

487 Venetia ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]