10551 Göteborg
asteroid
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Summary
10551 Göteborg is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Eric Walter Elst[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Côte d'Azur Observatory[4], Caussols[5]
- Named after: Gothenburg[6]
- Follows: 10550 Malmö[7]
- Followed by: 10552 Stockholm[8]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1931 AK[11], 1992 YL2[12], 1994 EB3[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: December 18, 1992[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.06[16], 0.0627024[17], 0.0573212609823859[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 12.1[19], 12.2[20]
- Orbital inclination: 11.38289 degree[21], 11.37788694877867 degree[22]
- Orbital period: 5.18 years[23], 1892.823131823387 day[24]
- Rotation period: 335.346 hour[25]
- Longitude of ascending node: 93.06164 degree[26], 92.76270790634257 degree[27]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.9929236 astronomical unit[28], 2.994615526001096 astronomical unit[29]
- Apoapsis: 3.181 astronomical unit[30], 3.16627066410891 astronomical unit[31]
- Periapsis: 2.8052601 astronomical unit[32], 2.822960387893283 astronomical unit[33]
- Argument of periapsis: 8.27966 degree[34], 8.702247547389543 degree[35]
- Mean anomaly: 26.07659 degree[36], 122.3272663088728 degree[37]
- Diameter: 15.491 km[38]
- Albedo: 0.117[39]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[40]
- Time of periapsis: 2460357.3225574386 Julian day[41]
Why It Matters
10551 Göteborg has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]