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68 Leto

main-belt asteroid
Place asteroid Q156451

Facts

28 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +27
Follows
67 Asia[5]
Followed by
69 Hesperia[6]
Absolute magnitude
6.9[15]
Albedo
0.228
Apoapsis
3.29573847728955
Apparent magnitude
9.56[14]
Argument of periapsis
304.894250361318
Asteroid spectral type
S-type asteroid[11]
Diameter
122.509
Discoverer or inventor
Robert Luther[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
44.04862869710109[20]
Mean anomaly
50.6592737002415
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[7]
Named after
Leto[4]
Orbital eccentricity
0.1843409443466936[13]
Orbital inclination
7.972, 7.960518536605414[16][17]
Orbital period
1695.557119746002[18]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[8]
Periapsis
2.26978468227249
Provisional designation
A861 HB[9]
Rotation period
14.848[19]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.782761579781019
Significant event
naming[12]
Site of astronomical discovery
Düsseldorf-Bilk Observatory[3]
Time of discovery or invention
April 29, 1861[10]
Time of periapsis
2460761.90085499
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
68Leto (Lightcurve Inversion).png ↗
DAMIT asteroid ID
218
Freebase ID
/m/036x8t
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20000068
Minor Planet Center body ID
68
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["MinorPlanet", "Leto"]

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🔗 Connections
Asteroid spectral type 1
S-type asteroid
Discoverer or inventor 1
Robert Luther
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Followed by 1
69 Hesperia
Followed by (predecessor) 1
69 Hesperia
Follows 1
67 Asia
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Named after 1
Leto
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Preceded by (successor) 1
67 Asia
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Düsseldorf-Bilk Observatory
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Summary

68 Leto is an asteroid[1].

Related Entities

Robert Luther

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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