994 Otthild
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
994 Otthild is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Follows: 993 Moultona[5]
- Followed by: 995 Sternberga[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Commons category: 994 Otthild[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1923 NL[10], 1960 KC[11], 1967 CM[12], 1967 EK1[13], A923 FB[14]
- Time of discovery or invention: March 18, 1923[15]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1151802934862277[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 10.2[19]
- Orbital inclination: 15.392 degree[20], 15.41571659816996 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 1469.393520208625 day[22]
- Rotation period: 5.95 hour[23]
- Longitude of ascending node: 2.297795895645405 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.529452115647738 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 2.820795152687404 astronomical unit[26]
- Periapsis: 2.238109078608072 astronomical unit[27]
- Argument of periapsis: 342.1327503785592 degree[28]
- Mean anomaly: 24.54763856852334 degree[29]
- Diameter: 20.786 km[30]
- Albedo: 0.2247[31], 0.31[32]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[33]
Why It Matters
994 Otthild has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]