asteroid 944 Hidalgo

E92942

Asteroid 944 Hidalgo is a large, eccentric, comet-like minor planet that orbits between the inner and outer solar system, making it one of the first known centaur objects.

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AI-generated illustration of asteroid 944 Hidalgo

This AI-generated illustration was produced by black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (1024x1024) from a prompt written by openai/gpt-oss-120b from the entity's label + description.

Prompt

Generate an image of an asteroid 944 Hidalgo (Asteroid 944 Hidalgo is a large, eccentric, comet-like minor planet that orbits between the inner and outer solar system, making it one of the first known centaur objects.)

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Label Occurrences
asteroid 944 Hidalgo canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf asteroid ⓘ
centaur (small Solar System body) ⓘ
comet-like object ⓘ
minor planet ⓘ
outer Solar System object ⓘ
belongsToDynamicalClass centaur ⓘ
belongsToPopulation small Solar System bodies ⓘ
crossesPlanetaryRegion inner Solar System ⓘ
outer Solar System ⓘ
hasAbsoluteMagnitude 10.1 ⓘ
hasAlbedo 0.04 ⓘ
hasAphelionDistance 9.53 AU ⓘ
hasAphelionNear orbit of Saturn ⓘ
hasApproximateDiameter 61 km ⓘ
hasArgumentOfPerihelion 57 degrees (approximate) ⓘ
hasColorIndex very red (typical of D-type) ⓘ
hasComet-likeOrbit true ⓘ
hasDiscoveryDate 1920-10-31 ⓘ
hasDiscoveryDesignation 1920 H ⓘ
hasHighlyEccentricOrbit true ⓘ
hasInclination 42.5 degrees ⓘ
hasLongitudeOfAscendingNode 21 degrees (approximate) ⓘ
hasMeanAnomaly 0.0 degrees (at epoch, approximate) ⓘ
hasMinorPlanetNumber 944 ⓘ
hasName Hidalgo ⓘ
hasObservationArc over 100 years ⓘ
hasOrbitalEccentricity 0.66 ⓘ
hasOrbitalPeriod 13.76 years ⓘ
hasOrbitCrossing Jupiter’s orbit ⓘ
hasPerihelionDistance 1.95 AU ⓘ
hasPerihelionInside asteroid belt region ⓘ
hasPotentialEvolution short-period comet (hypothesized future evolution) ⓘ
hasRotationPeriod 10.1 hours ⓘ
hasSemiMajorAxis 5.74 AU ⓘ
hasSpectralType D-type asteroid ⓘ
hasSurfaceComposition carbon-rich (inferred from D-type spectrum) ⓘ
hasTisserandParameterWithRespectToJupiter 2.1 ⓘ
interactsGravitationallyWith Jupiter ⓘ
isDynamicallyUnstable true ⓘ
isNamedAfter Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla ⓘ
mayHaveOrigin Kuiper belt or trans-Neptunian region (hypothesized) ⓘ
linked to: Kuiper Belt
orbits Sun ⓘ
wasDiscoveredAt Bergedorf Observatory ⓘ
wasDiscoveredBy Walter Baade ⓘ
wasFirstOfType one of the first known centaurs ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Walter Baade → discovered → asteroid 944 Hidalgo ⓘ