682 Hagar
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
682 Hagar is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: August Kopff[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Follows: 681 Gorgo[5]
- Followed by: 683 Lanzia[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Commons category: 682 Hagar[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1909 HA[10], 1943 GK[11], 1953 VU3[12], 1975 VO5[13], A909 MA[14]
- Time of discovery or invention: June 17, 1909[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.173924529279246[17]
- Absolute magnitude: 12.24[18]
- Orbital inclination: 11.491 degree[19], 11.51209031276195 degree[20]
- Orbital period: 1577.591651548653 day[21]
- Rotation period: 4.8503 hour[22]
- Longitude of ascending node: 190.7582747914172 degree[23]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.652146122927125 astronomical unit[24]
- Apoapsis: 3.113419388937003 astronomical unit[25]
- Periapsis: 2.190872856917248 astronomical unit[26]
- Argument of periapsis: 104.6229766021439 degree[27]
- Mean anomaly: 322.3092492221029 degree[28]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[29]
- Time of periapsis: 2461165.6683715773 Julian day[30]
Why It Matters
682 Hagar has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]