8344 Babette

Summary

8344 Babette is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 8344 Babette is credited with the discovery of Tsuneo Niijima^[3].
• 8344 Babette is credited with the discovery of Takeshi Urata^[4].
• 8344 Babette's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 8344 Babette's follows is recorded as Q1336638^[6].
• 8344 Babette's followed by is recorded as 8345 Ulmerspatz^[7].
• 8344 Babette's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[8].
• 8344 Babette's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[9].
• 8344 Babette's provisional designation is recorded as 1987 BB^[10].
• 8344 Babette's provisional designation is recorded as 1991 GZ2^[11].
• 8344 Babette's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1987-01-25T00:00:00Z^[12].
• 8344 Babette's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bbypv7^[13].
• 8344 Babette's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20008344^[14].
• 8344 Babette's significant event is recorded as naming^[15].
• 8344 Babette's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.16'}^[16].
• 8344 Babette's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1605220'}^[17].
• 8344 Babette's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1591330430685589'}^[18].
• 8344 Babette's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+14.6'}^[19].
• 8344 Babette's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+14.79'}^[20].
• 8344 Babette's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.38516'}^[21].
• 8344 Babette's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.389052550851064'}^[22].
• 8344 Babette's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q577', 'amount': '+3.67'}^[23].
• 8344 Babette's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1339.077714015968'}^[24].
• 8344 Babette's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+145.57463'}^[25].
• 8344 Babette's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+145.7646466812697'}^[26].
• 8344 Babette's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.3772007'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

8344 Babette's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

Why It Matters

8344 Babette ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]