8000 Isaac Newton
asteroid
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Summary
8000 Isaac Newton is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Henri Debehogne[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: European Southern Observatory[4], La Silla Observatory[5]
- Named after: Isaac Newton[6]
- Follows: 7999 Nesvorný[7]
- Followed by: 8001 Ramsden[8]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1981 RS3[11], 1981 UG11[12], 1986 RL5[13], 1988 AS4[14], 1995 EE[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 5, 1986[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.08[18], 0.0806974[19], 0.08015867504474421[20]
- Absolute magnitude: 12.3[21], 12.5[22], 12.6[23]
- Orbital inclination: 9.73694 degree[24], 9.726718731972037 degree[25]
- Orbital period: 5.37 years[26], 1965.294839014557 day[27]
- Rotation period: 12.4992 hour[28]
- Longitude of ascending node: 10.18710 degree[29], 10.05261462525178 degree[30]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.0662512 astronomical unit[31], 3.070573691090342 astronomical unit[32]
- Apoapsis: 3.314 astronomical unit[33], 3.316706809795394 astronomical unit[34]
- Periapsis: 2.8188126 astronomical unit[35], 2.824440572385291 astronomical unit[36]
- Argument of periapsis: 303.40772 degree[37], 305.9952325550728 degree[38]
- Mean anomaly: 51.39809 degree[39], 129.2922422069618 degree[40]
- Diameter: 10.552 km[41]
- Albedo: 0.209[42]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[43]
- Time of periapsis: 2460294.673954628 Julian day[44]
Why It Matters
8000 Isaac Newton is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]