1367 Nongoma
asteroid
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Summary
1367 Nongoma is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Cyril V. Jackson[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Union Observatory[4]
- Named after: Nongoma[5]
- Follows: 1366 Piccolo[6]
- Followed by: 1368 Numidia[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 1367 Nongoma[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1934 NA[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: July 3, 1934[12]
- Significant event: naming[13]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.13[14], 0.1311163[15], 0.1306032390997026[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 12.0[17]
- Orbital inclination: 22.48703 degree[18], 22.47749536084795 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 3.59 years[20], 1311.212860458773 day[21]
- Rotation period: 94.8 hour[22]
- Longitude of ascending node: 270.81485 degree[23], 270.7819923031344 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.3437995 astronomical unit[25], 2.344497904294086 astronomical unit[26]
- Apoapsis: 2.651 astronomical unit[27], 2.650696924657358 astronomical unit[28]
- Periapsis: 2.0364891 astronomical unit[29], 2.038298883930814 astronomical unit[30]
- Argument of periapsis: 348.07992 degree[31], 347.7192786572061 degree[32]
- Mean anomaly: 237.45023 degree[33], 177.1007760701775 degree[34]
- Diameter: 9.365 km[35]
- Albedo: 0.282[36]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[37]
Why It Matters
1367 Nongoma has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]