646 Kastalia

Summary

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

Key Facts

• 646 Kastalia is credited with the discovery of August Kopff^[3].
• 646 Kastalia's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 646 Kastalia's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory^[5].
• 646 Kastalia's follows is recorded as Q112292^[6].
• 646 Kastalia's followed by is recorded as Q731286^[7].
• 646 Kastalia's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[8].
• 646 Kastalia's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Kastalia symbol (fixed width).svg^[9].
• 646 Kastalia's Commons category is recorded as 646 Kastalia^[10].
• 646 Kastalia's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[11].
• 646 Kastalia's provisional designation is recorded as 1907 AC^[12].
• 646 Kastalia's provisional designation is recorded as A907 RL^[13].
• 646 Kastalia's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1907-09-11T00:00:00Z^[14].
• 646 Kastalia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08lywy^[15].
• 646 Kastalia's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000646^[16].
• 646 Kastalia's significant event is recorded as naming^[17].
• 646 Kastalia's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.2134391932308169'}^[18].
• 646 Kastalia's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+12.63'}^[19].
• 646 Kastalia's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+6.912'}^[20].
• 646 Kastalia's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+6.90494988616797'}^[21].
• 646 Kastalia's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1295.484141877971'}^[22].
• 646 Kastalia's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+3.1259'}^[23].
• 646 Kastalia's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+302.7533367274888'}^[24].
• 646 Kastalia's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.325711192016563'}^[25].
• 646 Kastalia's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.822109112528459'}^[26].
• 646 Kastalia's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.829313271504666'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

646 Kastalia's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].

Why It Matters

646 Kastalia 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 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]