4464 Vulcano
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Summary
4464 Vulcano is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Nikolai Chernykh[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Crimean Astrophysical Observatory[4]
- Named after: Aeolian Islands[5]
- Follows: 4463 Marschwarzschild[6]
- Followed by: 4465 Rodita[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8], inner asteroid belt[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1955 SA1[11], 1966 TE[12], 1985 TE[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: October 11, 1966[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.07[16], 0.0678356[17], 0.06807954839065554[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 13.6[19], 13.96[20]
- Orbital inclination: 20.20792 degree[21], 20.20468845529562 degree[22]
- Orbital period: 2.73 years[23], 996.4368895885291 day[24]
- Rotation period: 3.2065 hour[25]
- Longitude of ascending node: 11.75870 degree[26], 11.70660781179593 degree[27]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 1.9523693 astronomical unit[28], 1.952394521552673 astronomical unit[29]
- Apoapsis: 2.085 astronomical unit[30], 2.085312658860369 astronomical unit[31]
- Periapsis: 1.8199291 astronomical unit[32], 1.819476384244977 astronomical unit[33]
- Argument of periapsis: 314.43881 degree[34], 314.3086562796326 degree[35]
- Mean anomaly: 146.11612 degree[36], 293.395274193402 degree[37]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[38]
- Time of periapsis: 2461184.853905041 Julian day[39]
Why It Matters
4464 Vulcano is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]