742 Edisona

main-belt asteroid
Thing asteroid Q536659
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742 Edisona

Summary

742 Edisona is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 38 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • 742 Edisona is credited with the discovery of Franz Kaiser[3].
  • 742 Edisona's instance of is recorded as asteroid[4].
  • 742 Edisona's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[5].
  • Thomas Edison is named after 742 Edisona[6].
  • 742 Edisona's follows is recorded as Q156862[7].
  • 742 Edisona's followed by is recorded as Q156873[8].
  • 742 Edisona's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt[9].
  • 742 Edisona's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[10].
  • 742 Edisona's provisional designation is recorded as 1913 QU[11].
  • 742 Edisona's provisional designation is recorded as A913 DC[12].
  • 742 Edisona's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1913-02-23T00:00:00Z[13].
  • 742 Edisona's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08l_x7[14].
  • 742 Edisona's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000742[15].
  • 742 Edisona's asteroid spectral type is recorded as S-type asteroid[16].
  • 742 Edisona's asteroid spectral type is recorded as K-type asteroid[17].
  • 742 Edisona's significant event is recorded as naming[18].
  • 742 Edisona's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.1142629092927809'}[19].
  • 742 Edisona's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+9.62'}[20].
  • 742 Edisona's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+11.215'}[21].
  • 742 Edisona's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+11.20113071125052'}[22].
  • 742 Edisona's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+1910.963867850753'}[23].
  • 742 Edisona's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25235', 'amount': '+18.579'}[24].
  • 742 Edisona's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+64.12875150391528'}[25].
  • 742 Edisona's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.013718604507514'}[26].
  • 742 Edisona's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.358074860048323'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

742 Edisona is credited with the discovery of Franz Kaiser[3].

Why It Matters

742 Edisona has Wikipedia articles in 38 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . 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. [5] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Minor Planet Center database. 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. 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. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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