673 Edda
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
673 Edda is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Joel Hastings Metcalf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Taunton[4]
- Named after: Edda[5]
- Follows: 672 Astarte[6]
- Followed by: 674 Rachele[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 673 Edda[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1908 EA[11], 1948 BF[12], 1976 AK[13], A908 SG[14]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 20, 1908[15]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.008937473022632108[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 10.12[19]
- Orbital inclination: 2.876 degree[20], 2.880746527445637 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 1725.274528275302 day[22]
- Rotation period: 22.34 hour[23]
- Longitude of ascending node: 226.3885396098876 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.815182294415012 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 2.840342910225137 astronomical unit[26]
- Periapsis: 2.790021678604886 astronomical unit[27]
- Argument of periapsis: 256.5976750801498 degree[28]
- Mean anomaly: 168.4640364432142 degree[29]
- Diameter: 37.622 km[30]
- Albedo: 0.092[31]
Why It Matters
673 Edda has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]