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72 Feronia

main-belt asteroid
Place asteroid Q156730

Facts

27 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +26
Follows
71 Niobe[5]
Followed by
73 Klytia[6]
Absolute magnitude
9.07[17]
Albedo
0.063, 0.083
Apoapsis
2.541286209072893
Argument of periapsis
102.7134933022005
Asteroid spectral type
T-type asteroid[14]
Diameter
74.966
Discoverer or inventor
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
207.9309727870313
Mean anomaly
340.3024242722081
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[7]
Named after
Feronia[4]
Orbital eccentricity
0.1214011413951808[16]
Orbital inclination
5.417, 5.417802767938439[18][19]
Orbital period
1246.055268141998[20]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[8]
Periapsis
1.991054833332638
Provisional designation
1927 TK, 1950 LJ, A902 GA, A861 KA[9][10][11][12]
Rotation period
8.097
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.266170521202765
Significant event
naming[15]
Site of astronomical discovery
Litchfield Observatory[3]
Time of discovery or invention
May 29, 1861[13]
Time of periapsis
2461068.6785222366
🏷️ Also known as
en 72 Feronia en (72) Feronia en Feronia de 72 Feronia el 72 Φερονία fa سیارک ۷۲ fr 72 Feronia fr (72) Féronie fr Feronia ja フェロニア ru 1950 LJ ru 1927 TK ru (72) Feronia ru (72) Ферония ru A902 GA ru Feronia ru Ферония uk 72 Феронія vi (72) Feronia vi A861 KA
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
72Feronia (Lightcurve Inversion).png ↗
DAMIT asteroid ID
411
Freebase ID
/m/036zrd
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20000072
Minor Planet Center body ID
72
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["MinorPlanet", "Feronia"]

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Asteroid spectral type 1
T-type asteroid
Discoverer or inventor 1
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Followed by 1
73 Klytia
Followed by (predecessor) 1
73 Klytia
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Named after 1
Feronia
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Litchfield Observatory
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Summary

72 Feronia is an asteroid[1].

Related Entities

Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters

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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . 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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