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212 Medea

main-belt asteroid
Place asteroid Q147672

Facts

32 properties
Instance of
asteroid
Follows
211 Isolda[5]
Followed by
213 Lilaea[6]
Absolute magnitude
8.48[17]
Albedo
0.046, 0.0465
Apoapsis
3.437993806466021
Apparent magnitude
14.65[16]
Argument of periapsis
105.8007510904045
Asteroid spectral type
D-type asteroid[13]
Catalog code
1930 FW[11]
Density
2.0[21]
Diameter
136.12
Different from
Medea[18]
Discoverer or inventor
Johann Palisa[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
312.8804727650665
Mean anomaly
272.1428033978445
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[7]
Named after
Medea[4]
Orbital eccentricity
0.1028754219129413[15]
Orbital inclination
4.265, 4.277943618471374[19][20]
Orbital period
2010.325466477576
Parent astronomical body
Sun[8]
Periapsis
2.796606653670825
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Provisional designation
1930 FW, A880 CA[9][10]
Rotation period
10.283
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.117300230068423
Significant event
naming[14]
Site of astronomical discovery
Pula Observatory[3]
Surface gravity
0.0381
Time of discovery or invention
February 6, 1880[12]
Time of periapsis
2461491.1154437293
🏷️ Also known as
en 212 Medea en (212) Medea en Medea de 212 Médée el 212 Μήδεια fa سیارک ۲۱۲ fr (212) Médée fr 212 Médée fr Médée ja メデア pt 212 Médée ru 1930 FW ru (212) Medea ru (212) Медея ru Medea ru Медея th 212 มีเดีย uk 212 Медея vi 1930 FW vi (212) Medea
🔖 Identifiers · 5
DAMIT asteroid ID
659
Freebase ID
/m/057sww
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20000212
Minor Planet Center body ID
212
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["MinorPlanet", "Medea"]
🔗 Connections
Asteroid spectral type 1
D-type asteroid
Different from 1
Medea
Discoverer or inventor 1
Johann Palisa
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Follows 1
211 Isolda
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Named after 1
Medea
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Preceded by (successor) 1
211 Isolda
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Pula Observatory
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Summary

212 Medea is an asteroid[1].

Related Entities

Johann Palisa

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (Sixth Revised and Enlarged Edition). wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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