97 Klotho
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
97 Klotho is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (47 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Wilhelm Tempel[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Marseille Observatory[4]
- Named after: Clotho[5]
- Follows: 96 Aegle[6]
- Followed by: 98 Ianthe[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 97 Klotho[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: A868 DB[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: February 17, 1868[12]
- Asteroid spectral type: M-type asteroid[13]
- Significant event: naming[14]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2576168517561892[15]
- Absolute magnitude: 7.79[16]
- Orbital inclination: 11.783 degree[17], 11.7753714215073 degree[18]
- Orbital period: 1591.992830420828 day[19]
- Rotation period: 35.15 hour[20]
- Longitude of ascending node: 159.5860269127599 degree[21]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.668261892645623 astronomical unit[22]
- Apoapsis: 3.355651121089999 astronomical unit[23]
- Periapsis: 1.980872664201247 astronomical unit[24]
- Argument of periapsis: 268.4319508971797 degree[25]
- Mean anomaly: 134.0605636524906 degree[26]
- Diameter: 100.717 km[27]
- Albedo: 0.229[28], 0.128[29]
Why It Matters
97 Klotho has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]