90717 Flanders

Summary

90717 Flanders is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 90717 Flanders is credited with the discovery of Eric Walter Elst^[3].
• 90717 Flanders's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 90717 Flanders's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as La Silla Observatory^[5].
• Flanders is named after 90717 Flanders^[6].
• 90717 Flanders's follows is recorded as (90716) 1991 GY8^[7].
• 90717 Flanders's followed by is recorded as 90718 Castel Gandolfo^[8].
• 90717 Flanders's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[9].
• 90717 Flanders's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[10].
• 90717 Flanders's provisional designation is recorded as 2000 WU102^[11].
• 90717 Flanders's provisional designation is recorded as 1991 PF3^[12].
• 90717 Flanders's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1991-08-02T00:00:00Z^[13].
• 90717 Flanders's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20090717^[14].
• 90717 Flanders's significant event is recorded as naming^[15].
• 90717 Flanders's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.09346826027560115'}^[16].
• 90717 Flanders's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+14.85'}^[17].
• 90717 Flanders's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+9.773090898355374'}^[18].
• 90717 Flanders's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+1501.262326731165'}^[19].
• 90717 Flanders's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+123.5554459733655'}^[20].
• 90717 Flanders's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.565894365095808'}^[21].
• 90717 Flanders's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.805724047452282'}^[22].
• 90717 Flanders's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.326064682739335'}^[23].
• 90717 Flanders's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+206.7733911628965'}^[24].
• 90717 Flanders's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+110.8145843231057'}^[25].
• 90717 Flanders's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q828224', 'amount': '+3.187'}^[26].
• 90717 Flanders's albedo is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.276'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

90717 Flanders's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].

History and Context

Flanders is named after 90717 Flanders^[6].

Why It Matters

90717 Flanders ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2]