654 Zelinda
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
654 Zelinda is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: August Kopff[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Follows: 653 Berenike[5]
- Followed by: 655 Briseïs[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Commons category: 654 Zelinda[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1908 BM[10], 1965 QG[11], A908 AM[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 4, 1908[13]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2315730553598695[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 8.6[17]
- Orbital inclination: 18.118 degree[18], 18.09757484996264 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 1271.349198138167 day[20]
- Rotation period: 31.735 hour[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 278.3245338311926 degree[22]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.296735329921035 astronomical unit[23]
- Apoapsis: 2.828597347623808 astronomical unit[24]
- Periapsis: 1.764873312218263 astronomical unit[25]
- Argument of periapsis: 214.5788081057339 degree[26]
- Mean anomaly: 293.7503288808006 degree[27]
- Diameter: 160.736 km[28]
- Albedo: 0.0425[29], 0.027[30]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[31]
Why It Matters
654 Zelinda 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]