803 Picka
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
803 Picka is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Johann Palisa[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Vienna Observatory[4]
- Follows: 802 Epyaxa[5]
- Followed by: 804 Hispania[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Commons category: 803 Picka[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1915 WS[10], 1952 YH[11], 1984 EC2[12], A899 NE[13], A915 FD[14], A915 FL[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: March 21, 1915[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.06282732281643762[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.5[19]
- Orbital inclination: 8.685 degree[20], 8.65860296713947 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 2090.573202928585 day[22]
- Rotation period: 5.0742 hour[23]
- Longitude of ascending node: 250.7972555566608 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.199715032165194 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 3.400744561411645 astronomical unit[26]
- Periapsis: 2.998685502918744 astronomical unit[27]
- Argument of periapsis: 56.34193819112672 degree[28]
- Mean anomaly: 325.8916497458874 degree[29]
- Diameter: 46.5 km[30]
- Albedo: 0.1181[31]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[32]
- Time of periapsis: 2461198.5722306594 Julian day[33]
Why It Matters
803 Picka has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]