874 Rotraut
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
874 Rotraut is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Max Wolf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Follows: 873 Mechthild[5]
- Followed by: 875 Nymphe[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Commons category: 874 Rotraut[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1917 CC[10], 1976 WJ[11], A917 KK[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: May 25, 1917[13]
- Significant event: naming[14]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.08001962163998785[15]
- Absolute magnitude: 10.26[16]
- Orbital inclination: 11.154 degree[17], 11.14159804263974 degree[18]
- Orbital period: 2044.417979398624 day[19]
- Rotation period: 14.297 hour[20]
- Longitude of ascending node: 190.5914988442197 degree[21]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.152444938893117 astronomical unit[22]
- Apoapsis: 3.404702390144239 astronomical unit[23]
- Periapsis: 2.900187487641996 astronomical unit[24]
- Argument of periapsis: 8.191466726546162 degree[25]
- Mean anomaly: 165.0377333637493 degree[26]
- Diameter: 58.287 km[27]
- Albedo: 0.054[28]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[29]
- Time of periapsis: 2460063.260807311 Julian day[30]
Why It Matters
874 Rotraut has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]