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8344 Babette

asteroid
Place asteroid Q1336650

Facts

23 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +22
Follows
8343 Tugendhat[4]
Followed by
8345 Ulmerspatz[5]
Absolute magnitude
+14.6, +14.79[15][16]
Albedo
+0.292
Apoapsis
+2.759, +2.75595120017105
Argument of periapsis
+353.72254, +354.3086581901057
Diameter
+2.695
Discoverer or inventor
Tsuneo Niijima, Takeshi Urata[2][3]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
+145.57463, +145.7646466812697[21][22]
Mean anomaly
+279.78592, +203.9978997618395
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[6]
Orbital eccentricity
0.16 (0.16–0.16, n=3)[12][13][14]
Orbital inclination
+0.38516, +0.389052550851064[17][18]
Orbital period
+3.67, +1339.077714015968[19][20]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[7]
Periapsis
+1.9956076, +1.999242721098339
Provisional designation
1987 BB, 1991 GZ2[8][9]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
+2.3772007, +2.377596960634695[23]
Significant event
naming[11]
Time of discovery or invention
January 25, 1987[10]
Time of periapsis
+2461580.7748215795
🏷️ Also known as
en 8344 Babette en Babette de (8344) Babette fa سیارک ۸۳۴۴ ja バベット ru 1987 BB ru 1991 GZ2 ru (8344) 1987 BB ru Babette uk 8344 Бабетта zh 小行星8344
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Freebase ID
/m/0bbypv7
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20008344
Minor Planet Center body ID
8344

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🔗 Connections
Discoverer or inventor 2
Takeshi Urata, Tsuneo Niijima
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Followed by 1
8345 Ulmerspatz
Followed by (predecessor) 1
8345 Ulmerspatz
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

8344 Babette is an asteroid[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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