1283 Komsomolia
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Summary
1283 Komsomolia is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Vladimir Albitsky[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Simeiz Observatory[4]
- Named after: All-Union Leninist Young Communist League[5]
- Follows: 1282 Utopia[6]
- Followed by: 1284 Latvia[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 1283 Komsomolia[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1925 SC[11], 1931 VE1[12], 1951 EO2[13], 1960 VC[14], 1962 EB[15], A902 TE[16]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 25, 1925[17]
- Significant event: naming[18]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2212979508577243[19], 0.2211094[20], 0.2216265743412782[21]
- Absolute magnitude: 10.4[22]
- Orbital inclination: 8.90875 degree[23], 8.906025587666347 degree[24]
- Orbital period: 5.68 years[25], 2071.85005847883 day[26]
- Rotation period: 32.175 hour[27]
- Longitude of ascending node: 157.72336 degree[28], 157.6657427140887 degree[29]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.1821100 astronomical unit[30], 3.180581999464757 astronomical unit[31]
- Apoapsis: 3.886 astronomical unit[32], 3.885483492417665 astronomical unit[33]
- Periapsis: 2.4785157 astronomical unit[34], 2.47568050651185 astronomical unit[35]
- Argument of periapsis: 234.93261 degree[36], 234.2145847684277 degree[37]
- Mean anomaly: 89.22432 degree[38], 146.9442376646741 degree[39]
- Diameter: 29.569 km[40]
- Albedo: 0.1856[41], 0.153[42]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[43]
Why It Matters
1283 Komsomolia is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]