26493 Paulsucala
asteroid
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Summary
26493 Paulsucala is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Experimental Test Site[4]
- Follows: (26492) 2000 BA13[5]
- Followed by: (26494) 2000 BR22[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
- Provisional designation: 1994 RR23[9], 1998 SK114[10], 2000 BQ16[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 30, 2000[12]
- Significant event: naming[13]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.15[14], 0.1546788[15], 0.152821564055094[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 15.1[17], 15.34[18]
- Orbital inclination: 3.69616 degree[19], 3.697895218892066 degree[20]
- Orbital period: 3.66 years[21], 1337.860790492241 day[22]
- Longitude of ascending node: 102.67335 degree[23], 102.6365509599396 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.3748034 astronomical unit[25], 2.376156271492773 astronomical unit[26]
- Apoapsis: 2.742 astronomical unit[27], 2.739284189341619 astronomical unit[28]
- Periapsis: 2.0074718 astronomical unit[29], 2.013028353643927 astronomical unit[30]
- Argument of periapsis: 126.86458 degree[31], 126.9134932169662 degree[32]
- Mean anomaly: 245.68390 degree[33], 279.5464545684581 degree[34]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[35]
- Time of periapsis: 2461299.4878996913 Julian day[36]
Why It Matters
26493 Paulsucala has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]