808 Merxia

Summary

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

Key Facts

• 808 Merxia is credited with the discovery of Luigi Carnera^[3].
• 808 Merxia's image is recorded as 808Merxia (Lightcurve Inversion).png^[4].
• 808 Merxia's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 808 Merxia's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory^[6].
• 808 Merxia's follows is recorded as 807 Ceraskia^[7].
• 808 Merxia's followed by is recorded as 809 Lundia^[8].
• 808 Merxia's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[9].
• 808 Merxia's Commons category is recorded as 808 Merxia^[10].
• 808 Merxia's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[11].
• 808 Merxia's provisional designation is recorded as 1901 GY^[12].
• 808 Merxia's provisional designation is recorded as A901 TG^[13].
• 808 Merxia's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1901-10-11T00:00:00Z^[14].
• 808 Merxia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08m7cz^[15].
• 808 Merxia's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000808^[16].
• 808 Merxia's asteroid spectral type is recorded as S-type asteroid^[17].
• 808 Merxia's significant event is recorded as naming^[18].
• 808 Merxia's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1302860936983271'}^[19].
• 808 Merxia's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0032718^[20].
• 808 Merxia's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+9.98'}^[21].
• 808 Merxia's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.718'}^[22].
• 808 Merxia's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.722124848615413'}^[23].
• 808 Merxia's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1661.291072889462'}^[24].
• 808 Merxia's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+30.631'}^[25].
• 808 Merxia's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+180.9146845841275'}^[26].
• 808 Merxia's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.745142349002677'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

808 Merxia's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

Why It Matters

808 Merxia 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 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]