12711 Tukmit
minor planet
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Summary
12711 Tukmit is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (30 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Jean Mueller[3]
- Instance of: near-Earth object[4], near-Earth asteroid[5]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Palomar Observatory[6]
- Follows: 12710 Breda[7]
- Followed by: (12712) 1991 EY3[8]
- Minor planet group: Apollo asteroid[9]
- Commons category: 12711 Tukmit[10]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[11]
- Provisional designation: 1991 BB[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 19, 1991[13]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2723[16], 0.2722036[17], 0.2720510547751135[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 15.9[19], 16.04[20]
- Orbital inclination: 38.48807 degree[21], 38.49103769164112 degree[22]
- Orbital period: 1.29 years[23], 471.968142260562 day[24]
- Rotation period: 3.4848 hour[25]
- Longitude of ascending node: 294.98109 degree[26], 294.9611602243059 degree[27]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 1.1863501 astronomical unit[28], 1.186340905536473 astronomical unit[29]
- Apoapsis: 1.509 astronomical unit[30], 1.509086200210534 astronomical unit[31]
- Periapsis: 0.8634213 astronomical unit[32], 0.8635956108624121 astronomical unit[33]
- Argument of periapsis: 322.88666 degree[34], 322.8894049757885 degree[35]
- Mean anomaly: 205.70779 degree[36], 236.3963370651046 degree[37]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[38]
- Time of periapsis: 2461162.5471977 Julian day[39]
Why It Matters
12711 Tukmit has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]