58279 Kamerlingh
asteroid
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Summary
58279 Kamerlingh is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Eric Walter Elst[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: European Southern Observatory[4], La Silla Observatory[5]
- Follows: (58278) 1993 TA34[6]
- Followed by: (58280) 1993 UC2[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8], outer asteroid belt[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1993 TE40[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: October 11, 1993[12]
- Significant event: naming[13]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.14[14], 0.139456371416853[15]
- Absolute magnitude: 13.5[16], 13.63[17]
- Orbital inclination: 5.8 degree[18], 5.843162718137451 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 2887.835191877474 day[20]
- Longitude of ascending node: 126.0 degree[21], 125.930800918301 degree[22]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.968709570096001 astronomical unit[23]
- Apoapsis: 4.522171405948928 astronomical unit[24]
- Periapsis: 3.415247734243073 astronomical unit[25]
- Argument of periapsis: 0.1 degree[26], 359.5023869852421 degree[27]
- Mean anomaly: 177.0 degree[28], 290.000977468079 degree[29]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[30]
- Time of periapsis: 2461562.0156685133 Julian day[31]
Why It Matters
58279 Kamerlingh is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]