781 Kartvelia
outer main-belt asteroid
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Summary
781 Kartvelia is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Grigory Neujmin[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Simeiz Observatory[4]
- Follows: 780 Armenia[5]
- Followed by: 782 Montefiore[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7], outer asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 781 Kartvelia[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1914 UF[11], A908 AH[12], A914 BK[13]
- Catalog code: 1914 UF[14], A908 AH[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 25, 1914[16]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[17], X-type asteroid[18]
- Significant event: naming[19]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1198651662927771[20]
- Apparent magnitude: 14.23[21]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.47[22]
- Orbital inclination: 19.165 degree[23], 19.14168356866392 degree[24]
- Orbital period: 2105.153859658262 day[25]
- Rotation period: 19.04 hour[26]
- Longitude of ascending node: 137.9860611000973 degree[27]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.214575353000046 astronomical unit[28]
- Apoapsis: 3.59989096224806 astronomical unit[29]
- Periapsis: 2.829259743752033 astronomical unit[30]
- Argument of periapsis: 154.1392874645892 degree[31]
- Mean anomaly: 285.1250646936236 degree[32]
- Diameter: 72.927 km[33]
Why It Matters
781 Kartvelia has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]