790 Pretoria

Summary

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

Key Facts

• 790 Pretoria is credited with the discovery of Harry Edwin Wood^[3].
• 790 Pretoria's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 790 Pretoria's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Union Observatory^[5].
• 790 Pretoria's follows is recorded as Q157097^[6].
• 790 Pretoria's followed by is recorded as Q157108^[7].
• 790 Pretoria's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[8].
• 790 Pretoria's minor planet group is recorded as outer asteroid belt^[9].
• 790 Pretoria's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Pretoria symbol (fixed width).svg^[10].
• 790 Pretoria's Commons category is recorded as 790 Pretoria^[11].
• 790 Pretoria's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[12].
• 790 Pretoria's provisional designation is recorded as 1912 NW^[13].
• 790 Pretoria's provisional designation is recorded as 1970 HN^[14].
• 790 Pretoria's provisional designation is recorded as A912 BE^[15].
• 790 Pretoria's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1912-01-16T00:00:00Z^[16].
• 790 Pretoria's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08m0qp^[17].
• 790 Pretoria's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000790^[18].
• 790 Pretoria's asteroid spectral type is recorded as P-type asteroid^[19].
• 790 Pretoria's significant event is recorded as naming^[20].
• 790 Pretoria's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1563249180996915'}^[21].
• 790 Pretoria's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+8.04'}^[22].
• 790 Pretoria's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+20.549'}^[23].
• 790 Pretoria's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+20.56605193507118'}^[24].
• 790 Pretoria's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2290.547894545287'}^[25].
• 790 Pretoria's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+10.37'}^[26].
• 790 Pretoria's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+251.7975691539416'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

790 Pretoria's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].

Why It Matters

790 Pretoria ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]