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60 Echo

main-belt asteroid
Place asteroid Q209458

Facts

27 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +26
Follows
59 Elpis[5]
Followed by
61 Danaë[6]
Absolute magnitude
8.64[15]
Albedo
0.254, 0.373[27][28]
Apoapsis
2.834036120071037[22]
Argument of periapsis
270.8583221487252[24]
Asteroid spectral type
S-type asteroid[12]
Diameter
43.218[26]
Discoverer or inventor
James Ferguson[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
191.5230284050136[20]
Mean anomaly
128.0891340349541[25]
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[7]
Named after
Echo[4]
Orbital eccentricity
0.1844561424297632[14]
Orbital inclination
3.602, 3.600192305594067[16][17]
Orbital period
1351.848494666018[18]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[8]
Periapsis
1.951343462253333[23]
Provisional designation
A899 EB, A860 RB[9][10]
Rotation period
25.208[19]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.392689791162185[21]
Significant event
naming[13]
Site of astronomical discovery
Old Naval Observatory[3]
Time of discovery or invention
September 14, 1860[11]
Time of periapsis
2460519.508047144
🏷️ Also known as
en 60 Echo en (60) Echo en Echo el 60 Ηχώ es 60 Eco fa سیارک ۶۰ fa سیارک 60 fr 60 Echo fr (60) Echo fr (60) Écho fr 60 Écho fr Écho ja エコー pt (60) Echo ru (60) Echo ru 60 Эхо ru (60) Эхо ru A899 EB ru Echo ru Эхо
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
60Echo (Lightcurve Inversion).png ↗
DAMIT asteroid ID
990
Freebase ID
/m/036v5s
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20000060
Minor Planet Center body ID
60
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["MinorPlanet", "Echo"]

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🔗 Connections
Asteroid spectral type 1
S-type asteroid
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Followed by 1
61 Danaë
Followed by (predecessor) 1
61 Danaë
Follows 1
59 Elpis
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Named after 1
Echo
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Preceded by (successor) 1
59 Elpis
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Old Naval Observatory
← FactGrid item ID 1
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Summary

60 Echo is an asteroid[1].

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. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (Sixth Revised and Enlarged Edition). 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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