497 Iva
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
497 Iva is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Raymond Smith Dugan[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Iva Shores[5]
- Follows: 496 Gryphia[6]
- Followed by: 498 Tokio[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 497 Iva[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: A902 VB[11], 1947 BN[12], 1950 TD3[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: November 4, 1902[14]
- Asteroid spectral type: M-type asteroid[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.3006033345580194[17]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.82[18]
- Orbital inclination: 4.836 degree[19], 4.819387882186977 degree[20]
- Orbital period: 1757.998355777597 day[21]
- Rotation period: 4.62 hour[22]
- Longitude of ascending node: 6.305294374789383 degree[23]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.85066833590263 astronomical unit[24]
- Apoapsis: 3.70758874339392 astronomical unit[25]
- Periapsis: 1.993747928411339 astronomical unit[26]
- Argument of periapsis: 3.370245650549865 degree[27]
- Mean anomaly: 218.7889979947394 degree[28]
- Diameter: 40.932 km[29]
- Albedo: 0.119[30]
Why It Matters
497 Iva has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]