662 Newtonia
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
662 Newtonia is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 20 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]
- Named after: Newton[5]
- Follows: 661 Cloelia[6]
- Followed by: 663 Gerlinde[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 662 Newtonia[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1908 CW[11], 1929 UE[12], A908 FF[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: March 30, 1908[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2186422912674593[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 10.43[17]
- Orbital inclination: 4.116 degree[18], 4.128351044489952 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 1488.892238099208 day[20]
- Rotation period: 21.095 hour[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 133.5312762103436 degree[22]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.551779980813696 astronomical unit[23]
- Apoapsis: 3.109707002629236 astronomical unit[24]
- Periapsis: 1.993852958998157 astronomical unit[25]
- Argument of periapsis: 166.050569053027 degree[26]
- Mean anomaly: 225.5299258544869 degree[27]
- Diameter: 22.127 km[28]
- Albedo: 0.228[29]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[30]
Why It Matters
662 Newtonia is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]