421 Zähringia
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
421 Zähringia is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Max Wolf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: House of Zähringen[5]
- Follows: 420 Bertholda[6]
- Followed by: 422 Berolina[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 421 Zähringia[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: A896 RE[11], 1949 WJ[12], A908 OB[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 7, 1896[14]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2825169069816308[17]
- Absolute magnitude: 11.58[18]
- Orbital inclination: 7.774 degree[19], 7.786455355077488 degree[20]
- Orbital period: 1480.282970744975 day[21]
- Rotation period: 25.509 hour[22]
- Longitude of ascending node: 187.3309520293231 degree[23]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.541933652526772 astronomical unit[24]
- Apoapsis: 3.260072885791156 astronomical unit[25]
- Periapsis: 1.823794419262389 astronomical unit[26]
- Argument of periapsis: 209.1169097532962 degree[27]
- Mean anomaly: 307.5900196682089 degree[28]
- Diameter: 14.119 km[29]
- Albedo: 0.172[30]
Why It Matters
421 Zähringia is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]