24587 Kapaneus
asteroid
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Summary
24587 Kapaneus is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Cornelis Johannes van Houten[3], Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld[4], Tom Gehrels[5]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Palomar Observatory[6]
- Named after: Capaneus[7]
- Follows: (24586) 4230 T-2[8]
- Followed by: (24588) 4733 T-2[9]
- Minor planet group: Jupiter trojan[10], Greek camp trojan asteroid[11]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[12]
- Provisional designation: 1996 RW28[13], 4613 T-2[14]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 30, 1973[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.012[17], 0.0101820[18], 0.01168146310898421[19]
- Lagrangian point: L4-Jupiter-Sun[20]
- Absolute magnitude: 11.4[21], 11.51[22]
- Orbital inclination: 29.05767 degree[23], 29.03881437578339 degree[24]
- Orbital period: 11.79 years[25], 4320.817595175387 day[26]
- Longitude of ascending node: 176.35079 degree[27], 176.3605434379325 degree[28]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 5.1788154 astronomical unit[29], 5.191724884343666 astronomical unit[30]
- Apoapsis: 5.232 astronomical unit[31], 5.252371827052121 astronomical unit[32]
- Periapsis: 5.1260847 astronomical unit[33], 5.13107794163521 astronomical unit[34]
- Argument of periapsis: 348.11715 degree[35], 340.2885312105749 degree[36]
- Mean anomaly: 165.62014 degree[37], 14.07571367309891 degree[38]
- Diameter: 25.738 km[39]
- Albedo: 0.081[40]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[41]
- Time of periapsis: 2460831.559468602 Julian day[42]
Why It Matters
24587 Kapaneus is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]