822 Lalage
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
822 Lalage is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (26 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Max Wolf[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Follows: 821 Fanny[5]
- Followed by: 823 Sisigambis[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Commons category: 822 Lalage[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1916 ZD[10], 1943 EJ1[11], A916 GJ[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: March 31, 1916[13]
- Asteroid spectral type: D-type asteroid[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1548070393168235[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 12.07[17]
- Orbital inclination: 0.715 degree[18], 0.7187601735391529 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 1237.649452462955 day[20]
- Rotation period: 3.345 hour[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 210.0312015903217 degree[22]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.255967392494403 astronomical unit[23]
- Apoapsis: 2.605207025321756 astronomical unit[24]
- Periapsis: 1.90672775966705 astronomical unit[25]
- Argument of periapsis: 247.0559097690434 degree[26]
- Mean anomaly: 204.3628251906415 degree[27]
- Diameter: 8.243 km[28]
- Albedo: 0.349[29]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[30]
Why It Matters
822 Lalage has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]