73687 Thomas Aquinas

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73687 Thomas Aquinas

Summary

73687 Thomas Aquinas is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas is credited with the discovery of Freimut Börngen[3].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas is credited with the discovery of Lutz D. Schmadel[4].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's instance of is recorded as asteroid[5].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Karl Schwarzschild Observatory[6].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's follows is recorded as 73686 Nussdorf[7].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's followed by is recorded as (73688) 1990 VA5[8].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt[9].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[10].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's provisional designation is recorded as 1990 TQ2[11].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's provisional designation is recorded as 1997 EM57[12].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1990-10-10T00:00:00Z[13].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03yh6w_[14].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20073687[15].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's significant event is recorded as naming[16].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.15'}[17].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1546686275065753'}[18].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+14.6'}[19].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+14.81'}[20].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15.3'}[21].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15.30629018816788'}[22].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1513.249305906971'}[23].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+10.5'}[24].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+10.35407937422937'}[25].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.57953467988698'}[26].
  • 73687 Thomas Aquinas's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.978507768430713'}[27].

Body

Designation and Status

73687 Thomas Aquinas's instance of is recorded as asteroid[5].

Why It Matters

73687 Thomas Aquinas ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Minor Planet Center database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Minor Planet Center database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Shuaib-bot bot · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Discoverer or inventor Freimut Börngen, Lutz D. Schmadel
    Apoapsis {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.978507768430713'}
    Mean anomaly {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+36.7'}, {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+219.7425006359619'}
    Parent astronomical body Sun
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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