1193 Africa
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Summary
1193 Africa is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Cyril V. Jackson[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Union Observatory[4]
- Named after: Africa[5]
- Follows: 1192 Prisma[6]
- Followed by: 1194 Aletta[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 1193 Africa[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1931 HB[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: April 24, 1931[12]
- Significant event: naming[13]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1232488[14], 0.1230070[15], 0.1236154839064382[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 11.8[17], 11.82[18]
- Different from: Africa[19]
- Orbital inclination: 14.14052 degree[20], 14.14305949546692 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 4.3 years[22], 1571.814961709778 day[23]
- Rotation period: 158.7 hour[24]
- Longitude of ascending node: 49.53925 degree[25], 49.4556545139078 degree[26]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.6463545 astronomical unit[27], 2.645667897820612 astronomical unit[28]
- Apoapsis: 2.972 astronomical unit[29], 2.972713415265436 astronomical unit[30]
- Periapsis: 2.3208343 astronomical unit[31], 2.318622380375788 astronomical unit[32]
- Argument of periapsis: 184.00232 degree[33], 186.1150415542845 degree[34]
- Mean anomaly: 146.34264 degree[35], 333.3496142099378 degree[36]
- Diameter: 12.22 km[37]
- Albedo: 0.247[38]
Why It Matters
1193 Africa has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]