602 Marianna
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
602 Marianna is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 37 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Joel Hastings Metcalf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Taunton[4]
- Follows: 601 Nerthus[5]
- Followed by: 603 Timandra[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
- Provisional designation: 1906 TE[9], 1946 LC[10], 1947 RF[11], A909 UD[12], A920 TC[13], A906 DJ[14]
- Time of discovery or invention: February 16, 1906[15]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2519296043073397[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 8.66[19]
- Orbital inclination: 15.073 degree[20], 15.11627248659655 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 1974.435465032381 day[22]
- Rotation period: 35.195 hour[23]
- Longitude of ascending node: 331.3878969282064 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.080087192879775 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 3.856052340614081 astronomical unit[26]
- Periapsis: 2.304122045145468 astronomical unit[27]
- Argument of periapsis: 45.57964361049917 degree[28]
- Mean anomaly: 135.1612733259136 degree[29]
- Diameter: 110.444 km[30]
- Albedo: 0.067[31]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[32]
- Time of periapsis: 2460259.2021901286 Julian day[33]
Why It Matters
602 Marianna is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]