83982 Crantor

Summary

83982 Crantor is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 83982 Crantor is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking^[3].
• 83982 Crantor's image is recorded as Crantor orbit.tiff^[4].
• 83982 Crantor's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 83982 Crantor's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Palomar Observatory^[6].
• Crantor is named after 83982 Crantor^[7].
• 83982 Crantor's follows is recorded as (83981) 2002 EJ22^[8].
• 83982 Crantor's followed by is recorded as (83983) 2002 GE39^[9].
• 83982 Crantor's minor planet group is recorded as centaur^[10].
• 83982 Crantor's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Crantor symbol.svg^[11].
• 83982 Crantor's Commons category is recorded as 83982 Crantor^[12].
• 83982 Crantor's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[13].
• 83982 Crantor's provisional designation is recorded as 2002 GO9^[14].
• 83982 Crantor's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2002-04-12T00:00:00Z^[15].
• 83982 Crantor's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03y19nt^[16].
• 83982 Crantor's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20083982^[17].
• 83982 Crantor's significant event is recorded as naming^[18].
• 83982 Crantor's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.27948'}^[19].
• 83982 Crantor's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.2752037846601229'}^[20].
• 83982 Crantor's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+8.5929'}^[21].
• 83982 Crantor's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+8.91'}^[22].
• 83982 Crantor's color index is recorded as {'amount': '+1.105'}^[23].
• 83982 Crantor's color index is recorded as {'amount': '+0.761'}^[24].
• 83982 Crantor's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+12.78844'}^[25].
• 83982 Crantor's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+12.78848650267231'}^[26].
• 83982 Crantor's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+31151.92038840647'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

83982 Crantor's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

History and Context

Crantor is named after 83982 Crantor^[7].

Why It Matters

83982 Crantor ranks in the top 1% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]