1021 Flammario
asteroid
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Summary
1021 Flammario is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Max Wolf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Camille Flammarion[5]
- Follows: 1020 Arcadia[6]
- Followed by: 1022 Olympiada[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 1021 Flammario[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1924 RG[11], 1977 UM[12], A910 CE[13], A924 EW[14]
- Time of discovery or invention: March 11, 1924[15]
- Asteroid spectral type: F-type asteroid[16], B-type asteroid[17]
- Significant event: naming[18]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.29[19], 0.2854555[20], 0.2838474373099857[21]
- Absolute magnitude: 8.98[22], 9.01[23]
- Orbital inclination: 15.87075 degree[24], 15.85879599022283 degree[25]
- Orbital period: 4.53 years[26], 1656.448675104226 day[27]
- Rotation period: 12.155 hour[28]
- Longitude of ascending node: 115.43771 degree[29], 115.3857153308184 degree[30]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.7362814 astronomical unit[31], 2.739805320193741 astronomical unit[32]
- Apoapsis: 3.517 astronomical unit[33], 3.517492039058999 astronomical unit[34]
- Periapsis: 1.9551948 astronomical unit[35], 1.962118601328483 astronomical unit[36]
- Argument of periapsis: 286.90869 degree[37], 286.7662605275829 degree[38]
- Mean anomaly: 97.97816 degree[39], 260.256016181168 degree[40]
- Diameter: 100.765 km[41]
- Albedo: 0.045[42]
Why It Matters
1021 Flammario has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]