660 Crescentia
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
660 Crescentia is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 39 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Joel Hastings Metcalf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Taunton[4]
- Follows: 659 Nestor[5]
- Followed by: 661 Cloelia[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
- Provisional designation: 1908 CC[9], 1961 CF[10], A908 AN[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 8, 1908[12]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[13]
- Significant event: naming[14]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1087774129616483[15]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.2[16]
- Orbital inclination: 15.219 degree[17], 15.19513249311119 degree[18]
- Orbital period: 1472.364514222309 day[19]
- Rotation period: 7.9116 hour[20]
- Longitude of ascending node: 156.7584703551863 degree[21]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.532860531802473 astronomical unit[22]
- Apoapsis: 2.80837854784461 astronomical unit[23]
- Periapsis: 2.257342515760335 astronomical unit[24]
- Argument of periapsis: 107.1818985982255 degree[25]
- Mean anomaly: 295.3603851303758 degree[26]
- Diameter: 42.302 km[27]
- Albedo: 0.332[28]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[29]
- Time of periapsis: 2461264.8696531863 Julian day[30]
Why It Matters
660 Crescentia is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]