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79 Eurynome

main-belt asteroid
Place Asteroid Q208658

Facts

28 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +27
Follows
78 Diana[5]
Followed by
80 Sappho[6]
Absolute magnitude
7.78[15]
Albedo
0.262, 0.287
Apoapsis
2.910799850585231
Apparent magnitude
9.35[14]
Argument of periapsis
201.39110619
Asteroid spectral type
S-type asteroid[11]
Diameter
63.479
Discoverer or inventor
James Craig Watson[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
206.5013214058156[20]
Mean anomaly
127.3290571903125
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[7]
Named after
Eurynome[4]
Orbital eccentricity
0.1910249477645753[13]
Orbital inclination
4.622, 4.613161362928296[16][17]
Orbital period
1395.518682684264[18]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[8]
Periapsis
1.97709079527989
Provisional designation
A863 RA[9]
Rotation period
5.978[19]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.443945322932561
Significant event
naming[12]
Site of astronomical discovery
Detroit Observatory[3]
Time of discovery or invention
September 14, 1863[10]
Time of periapsis
2460506.916449562
🏷️ Also known as
en 79 Eurynome en (79) Eurynome en Eurynome de 79 Eurynome el 79 Ευρυνόμη es 79 eurinoma es (79) eurinoma es Eurinoma fa سیارک 79 fa سیارک ۷۹ fr Eurynomé fr 79 Eurynome fr (79) Eurynome fr (79) Eurynomé fr 79 Eurynomé it 79 Eurinome ja エウリノメ ro (79) Eurinoma ru (79) Eurynome ru (79) Эвринома
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
79Eurynome (Lightcurve Inversion).png ↗
DAMIT asteroid ID
332
Freebase ID
/m/036_4_
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20000079
Minor Planet Center body ID
79
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["MinorPlanet", "Eurynome"]

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Asteroid spectral type 1
S-type asteroid
Discoverer or inventor 1
James Craig Watson
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Followed by 1
80 Sappho
Followed by (predecessor) 1
80 Sappho
Follows 1
78 Diana
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Named after 1
Eurynome
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Preceded by (successor) 1
78 Diana
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Detroit Observatory
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Summary

79 Eurynome is an asteroid[1].

Related Entities

James Craig Watson

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . JPL Small-Body 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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