188 Menippe
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
188 Menippe is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (52 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Litchfield Observatory[4]
- Named after: Menippe[5]
- Follows: 187 Lamberta[6]
- Followed by: 189 Phthia[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 188 Menippe[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1948 WQ[11], A897 QA[12], A878 MA[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: June 18, 1878[14]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1786435225745463[17]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.29[18]
- Orbital inclination: 11.73 degree[19], 11.70223609585591 degree[20]
- Orbital period: 1676.822097703473 day[21]
- Rotation period: 11.98 hour[22]
- Longitude of ascending node: 240.8149421013224 degree[23]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.762224933573152 astronomical unit[24]
- Apoapsis: 3.255678525849902 astronomical unit[25]
- Periapsis: 2.268771341296402 astronomical unit[26]
- Argument of periapsis: 69.66293156858077 degree[27]
- Mean anomaly: 357.5275818842175 degree[28]
- Diameter: 35.752 km[29]
- Albedo: 0.243[30], 0.242[31]
Why It Matters
188 Menippe has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]