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66 Maja

main-belt asteroid
Place Asteroid Q107735

Facts

30 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +29
Follows
65 Cybele[5]
Followed by
67 Asia[6]
Absolute magnitude
9.48[19]
Albedo
0.06, 0.016
Apoapsis
3.102217554056666
Argument of periapsis
43.46603781573609
Asteroid spectral type
C-type asteroid[16]
Diameter
71.82
Discoverer or inventor
Horace Parnell Tuttle[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
7.477278787753273
Mass
390000000000000000
Mean anomaly
209.2529227951781
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[7]
Named after
Maia[4]
Orbital eccentricity
0.1720756258975881[18]
Orbital inclination
3.047, 3.043199893884271[20]
Orbital period
1572.799460340325
Parent astronomical body
Sun[8]
Periapsis
2.191327479235797
Provisional designation
1947 FO, 1974 KR, 1992 OX10, A902 UF, A906 QD, A861 GA[9][10][11][12][13][14]
Rotation period
9.73509
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.646772516646232
Significant event
naming[17]
Site of astronomical discovery
Harvard College Observatory[3]
Surface gravity
0.0203
Temperature
171.0
Time of discovery or invention
April 9, 1861[15]
Time of periapsis
2461659.0970046544
🏷️ Also known as
en (66) Maja en 66 Maja en Maja el 66 Μάγια es 66 maya fa سیارک ۶۶ fa سیارک 66 fr (66) Maïa fr (66) Maja fr Maïa it 66 Maia ja マーヤ pt Maja ru (66) Майя ru 1947 FO ru 1974 KR ru 1992 OX10 ru (66) Maja ru A902 UF ru A906 QD
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
A737.M1234.shape(1).png ↗
DAMIT asteroid ID
737
Freebase ID
/m/036x61
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20000066
Minor Planet Center body ID
66
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["MinorPlanet", "Maja"]

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Asteroid spectral type 1
C-type asteroid
Discoverer or inventor 1
Horace Parnell Tuttle
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Followed by 1
67 Asia
Followed by (predecessor) 1
67 Asia
Follows 1
65 Cybele
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Named after 1
Maia
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Preceded by (successor) 1
65 Cybele
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Harvard College Observatory
← FactGrid item ID 1
Bouzeron
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Summary

66 Maja is an asteroid[1].

Related Entities

Horace Parnell Tuttle

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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