775 Lumière
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
775 Lumière is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Joanny-Philippe Lagrula[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Nice Observatory[4]
- Named after: Auguste and Louis Lumière[5]
- Follows: 774 Armor[6]
- Followed by: 776 Berbericia[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 775 Lumière[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1914 TX[11], A917 SB[12], A914 AA[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 6, 1914[14]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.0664411213001351[17]
- Absolute magnitude: 10.29[18]
- Orbital inclination: 9.283 degree[19], 9.256590062676828 degree[20]
- Orbital period: 1911.330828788197 day[21]
- Rotation period: 6.103 hour[22]
- Longitude of ascending node: 297.5011816583175 degree[23]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.014104406887557 astronomical unit[24]
- Apoapsis: 3.214364883396845 astronomical unit[25]
- Periapsis: 2.813843930378269 astronomical unit[26]
- Argument of periapsis: 171.6628423838437 degree[27]
- Mean anomaly: 151.4293604631268 degree[28]
- Diameter: 31.958 km[29]
- Albedo: 0.111[30]
Why It Matters
775 Lumière has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]