70 Panopaea
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
70 Panopaea is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Hermann Goldschmidt[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Latin Quarter[4], Paris Observatory, PSL University[5]
- Named after: Panopea[6]
- Follows: 69 Hesperia[7]
- Followed by: 71 Niobe[8]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[9]
- Commons category: 70 Panopaea[10]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[11]
- Provisional designation: A861 JA[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: May 5, 1861[13]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.183043826997719[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 8.17[17]
- Orbital inclination: 11.584 degree[18], 11.5968282732613 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 1543.255414316367 day[20]
- Rotation period: 15.8052 hour[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 47.63786605737737 degree[22]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.61352257002954 astronomical unit[23]
- Apoapsis: 3.091911743192661 astronomical unit[24]
- Periapsis: 2.135133396866419 astronomical unit[25]
- Argument of periapsis: 255.4475448076362 degree[26]
- Mean anomaly: 269.5660009447556 degree[27]
- Diameter: 127.911 km[28]
- Albedo: 0.038[29]
Why It Matters
70 Panopaea has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]