807 Ceraskia
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
807 Ceraskia is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Max Wolf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Vitold Cerasky[5]
- Follows: 806 Gyldénia[6]
- Followed by: 808 Merxia[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 807 Ceraskia[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1915 WY[11], 1974 QB3[12], A909 BK[13], A917 QA[14], A915 HF[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: April 18, 1915[16]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[17]
- Significant event: naming[18]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.05946962439717282[19]
- Absolute magnitude: 10.62[20]
- Orbital inclination: 11.306 degree[21], 11.29332456909864 degree[22]
- Orbital period: 1916.506658888073 day[23]
- Rotation period: 7.368 hour[24]
- Longitude of ascending node: 131.9580410906335 degree[25]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.019543360587657 astronomical unit[26]
- Apoapsis: 3.199114470092782 astronomical unit[27]
- Periapsis: 2.839972251082532 astronomical unit[28]
- Argument of periapsis: 338.0635442779202 degree[29]
- Mean anomaly: 106.3391473006773 degree[30]
- Diameter: 21.241 km[31]
- Albedo: 0.207[32]
Why It Matters
807 Ceraskia is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]