5 Astraea
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
5 Astraea is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 0.58% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (480 views/month, #24 of 4,107).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Karl Ludwig Hencke[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Drezdenko[4]
- Named after: Astraea[5]
- Follows: Vesta[6]
- Followed by: 6 Hebe[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Page(s): 15-15[9]
- Commons category: 5 Astraea[10]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[11]
- Unicode character: ⯙[12]
- Provisional designation: 1969 SE[13], A845 XA[14]
- Time of discovery or invention: December 8, 1845[15]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1875086167326962[18]
- Apparent magnitude: 12.33[19]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[20]
- Absolute magnitude: 6.99[21]
- Title: (5) Astraea[22]
- Orbital inclination: 5.368523 degree[23], 5.359248120907578 degree[24]
- Density: 2.7 gram per cubic centimetre[25]
- Mass: 2,400,000,000,000,000,000 kg[26]
- Orbital period: 1510.900403833822 day[27]
- Rotation period: 16.806 hour[28]
- Longitude of ascending node: 141.4486125155515 degree[29]
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for 5 Astraea include Astraea Nunatak[30], a nunatak[31].
Why It Matters
5 Astraea has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]
Entities named for it include Astraea Nunatak[30], a nunatak[31].