669 Kypria

Summary

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

Key Facts

• 669 Kypria is credited with the discovery of August Kopff^[3].
• 669 Kypria's image is recorded as 669Kypria (Lightcurve Inversion).png^[4].
• 669 Kypria's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 669 Kypria's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory^[6].
• 669 Kypria's follows is recorded as Q156359^[7].
• 669 Kypria's followed by is recorded as Q156378^[8].
• 669 Kypria's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[9].
• 669 Kypria's Commons category is recorded as 669 Kypria^[10].
• 669 Kypria's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[11].
• 669 Kypria's provisional designation is recorded as 1908 DQ^[12].
• 669 Kypria's provisional designation is recorded as A906 BK^[13].
• 669 Kypria's provisional designation is recorded as A908 QF^[14].
• 669 Kypria's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1908-08-20T00:00:00Z^[15].
• 669 Kypria's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08lzbl^[16].
• 669 Kypria's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000669^[17].
• 669 Kypria's asteroid spectral type is recorded as S-type asteroid^[18].
• 669 Kypria's significant event is recorded as naming^[19].
• 669 Kypria's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.07643460083514284'}^[20].
• 669 Kypria's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.04'}^[21].
• 669 Kypria's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+10.793'}^[22].
• 669 Kypria's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+10.79080859648085'}^[23].
• 669 Kypria's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1913.452478575969'}^[24].
• 669 Kypria's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+14.283'}^[25].
• 669 Kypria's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+170.3522526383808'}^[26].
• 669 Kypria's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.016334507984323'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

669 Kypria's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

Why It Matters

669 Kypria ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 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]