772 Tanete
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
772 Tanete is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (46 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Adam Massinger[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Follows: 771 Libera[5]
- Followed by: 773 Irmintraud[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Commons category: 772 Tanete[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1913 TR[10], 1936 NG[11], A902 WA[12], A907 VG[13], A910 JB[14], A913 YD[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: December 19, 1913[16]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[17]
- Significant event: naming[18]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.09528505456589936[19]
- Absolute magnitude: 8.45[20]
- Orbital inclination: 28.811 degree[21], 28.83302184628927 degree[22]
- Orbital period: 1897.865079093063 day[23]
- Rotation period: 17.258 hour[24]
- Longitude of ascending node: 63.71514580082224 degree[25]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.999931042326612 astronomical unit[26]
- Apoapsis: 3.285779635388639 astronomical unit[27]
- Periapsis: 2.714082449264585 astronomical unit[28]
- Argument of periapsis: 145.4696307954287 degree[29]
- Mean anomaly: 89.41367531677098 degree[30]
- Diameter: 126.473 km[31]
- Albedo: 0.0594[32], 0.028[33]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[34]
Why It Matters
772 Tanete has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]