199 Byblis

Summary

199 Byblis is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 199 Byblis is credited with the discovery of Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters^[3].
• 199 Byblis's image is recorded as 199Byblis (Lightcurve Inversion).png^[4].
• 199 Byblis's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 199 Byblis's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Litchfield Observatory^[6].
• Byblis is named after 199 Byblis^[7].
• 199 Byblis's follows is recorded as Q146513^[8].
• 199 Byblis's followed by is recorded as 200 Dynamene^[9].
• 199 Byblis's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[10].
• 199 Byblis's Commons category is recorded as 199 Byblis^[11].
• 199 Byblis's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[12].
• 199 Byblis's provisional designation is recorded as 1971 WB^[13].
• 199 Byblis's provisional designation is recorded as A879 NA^[14].
• 199 Byblis's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1879-07-09T00:00:00Z^[15].
• 199 Byblis's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03bk6s^[16].
• 199 Byblis's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000199^[17].
• 199 Byblis's asteroid spectral type is recorded as X-type asteroid^[18].
• 199 Byblis's significant event is recorded as naming^[19].
• 199 Byblis's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1833995339059552'}^[20].
• 199 Byblis's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+8.44'}^[21].
• 199 Byblis's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15.43'}^[22].
• 199 Byblis's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15.4793826429198'}^[23].
• 199 Byblis's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2053.564109713196'}^[24].
• 199 Byblis's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+5.2201'}^[25].
• 199 Byblis's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+88.41750628303119'}^[26].
• 199 Byblis's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.161840022476004'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

199 Byblis's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

History and Context

Byblis is named after 199 Byblis^[7].

Why It Matters

199 Byblis ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]