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46 Hestia

main-belt asteroid
Place asteroid Q108322

Facts

29 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +28
Follows
45 Eugenia[5]
Followed by
47 Aglaja[6]
Absolute magnitude
8.51[17]
Albedo
0.052, 0.046
Apoapsis
2.960152452050862
Argument of periapsis
177.0494777255353
Asteroid spectral type
P-type asteroid, X-type asteroid[12][13]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16]
Diameter
131.471
Discoverer or inventor
N. R. Pogson[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
181.0594579150406
Mass
3.5[20]
Mean anomaly
299.7522009307137
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[7]
Named after
Hestia[4]
Orbital eccentricity
0.1719292926300535[15]
Orbital inclination
2.342, 2.351324430131733[18][19]
Orbital period
1466.28175268426[21]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[8]
Periapsis
2.091607019559687
Provisional designation
1935 EY, A857 QA[9][10]
Rotation period
21.04
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.525879735805274
Significant event
naming[14]
Site of astronomical discovery
Radcliffe Observatory[3]
Time of discovery or invention
August 16, 1857[11]
Time of periapsis
2461245.8895789296
🏷️ Also known as
en 46 Hestia en (46) Hestia ar 46 هيستيا cs Hestia el 46 Εστία es 46 Hestia fa سیارک 46 fa سیارک ۴۶ fr Hestia ja ヘスティア ko 46 헤스티아 nl (46) Hestia pt Hestia pt 46 Héstia ru 1935 EY ru (46) Hestia ru 46 Гестия ru (46) Гестия ru Hestia ru Гестия
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Freebase ID
/m/036fx6
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20000046
Minor Planet Center body ID
46
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["MinorPlanet", "Hestia"]

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Asteroid spectral type 2
P-type asteroid, X-type asteroid
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Discoverer or inventor 1
N. R. Pogson
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Followed by 1
47 Aglaja
Followed by (predecessor) 1
47 Aglaja
Follows 1
45 Eugenia
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Named after 1
Hestia
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Preceded by (successor) 1
45 Eugenia
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Radcliffe Observatory
← FactGrid item ID 1
Bucy-Saint-Liphard
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Summary

46 Hestia is an asteroid[1].

Related Entities

N. R. Pogson

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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