776 Berbericia
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
776 Berbericia is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Adam Massinger[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Adolf Berberich[5]
- Follows: 775 Lumière[6]
- Followed by: 777 Gutemberga[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 776 Berbericia[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1914 TY[11], 1977 PN2[12], 1999 BO16[13], A910 GA[14], A911 MA[15], A914 BE[16]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 24, 1914[17]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[18]
- Significant event: naming[19]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1652472785188714[20]
- Absolute magnitude: 7.69[21]
- Orbital inclination: 18.206 degree[22], 18.24707851719595 degree[23]
- Orbital period: 1832.052651728119 day[24]
- Rotation period: 7.668 hour[25]
- Longitude of ascending node: 79.64440496426974 degree[26]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.930171338245549 astronomical unit[27]
- Apoapsis: 3.414374177484626 astronomical unit[28]
- Periapsis: 2.445968499006473 astronomical unit[29]
- Argument of periapsis: 306.214957502838 degree[30]
- Mean anomaly: 184.6909048547141 degree[31]
- Diameter: 151.711 km[32]
- Albedo: 0.0655[33], 0.065[34]
Why It Matters
776 Berbericia 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]