17058 Rocknroll
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
17058 Rocknroll is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: John Broughton[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Reedy Creek Observatory[4]
- Named after: rock and roll[5]
- Follows: (17057) 1999 GS4[6]
- Followed by: 17059 Elvis[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1999 GA5[10]
- Time of discovery or invention: April 13, 1999[11]
- Significant event: naming[12]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.07[13], 0.0712580[14], 0.07034074583093551[15]
- Absolute magnitude: 13.9[16], 13.92[17]
- Orbital inclination: 14.95224 degree[18], 14.95819355989453 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 4.13 years[20], 1509.121271281489 day[21]
- Rotation period: 5.25 hour[22]
- Longitude of ascending node: 25.72241 degree[23], 25.56285186692017 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.5747074 astronomical unit[25], 2.574841355104926 astronomical unit[26]
- Apoapsis: 2.758 astronomical unit[27], 2.755957616419343 astronomical unit[28]
- Periapsis: 2.3912388 astronomical unit[29], 2.393725093790509 astronomical unit[30]
- Argument of periapsis: 67.91343 degree[31], 69.9952343053929 degree[32]
- Mean anomaly: 60.17987 degree[33], 270.4739436874351 degree[34]
- Diameter: 5.456 km[35]
- Albedo: 0.179[36]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[37]
- Time of periapsis: 2461375.793544209 Julian day[38]
Why It Matters
17058 Rocknroll is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]