310 Margarita
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
310 Margarita is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Auguste Charlois[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Nice Observatory[4]
- Follows: 309 Fraternitas[5]
- Followed by: 311 Claudia[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Commons category: 310 Margarita[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: A920 TB[10], A891 KA[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: May 16, 1891[12]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[13]
- Significant event: naming[14]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1172886537873609[15]
- Absolute magnitude: 10.2[16]
- Orbital inclination: 3.173 degree[17], 3.171894307759312 degree[18]
- Orbital period: 1675.129256857578 day[19]
- Rotation period: 12.07 hour[20]
- Longitude of ascending node: 229.0290205314398 degree[21]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.760365545574755 astronomical unit[22]
- Apoapsis: 3.084125104376233 astronomical unit[23]
- Periapsis: 2.436605986773278 astronomical unit[24]
- Argument of periapsis: 324.7504460769803 degree[25]
- Mean anomaly: 148.1327906210595 degree[26]
- Diameter: 33.708 km[27]
- Albedo: 0.115[28]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[29]
Why It Matters
310 Margarita has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]