Key facts
- Discovered by
- C. Kowal
- Discovery site
- Palomar Obs.
- Discovery date
- 22 October 1976
- Pronunciation
- / ˈ h æ θ ɔːr , - ər /
- Named after
- Hathor ( Egyptian deity )
- Alternative designations
- 1976 UA
- Minor planet category
- Aten · NEO · PHA
- Observation arc
- 38.00 yr (13,878 days)
- Aphelion
- 1.2235 AU
- Perihelion
- 0.4642 AU
- Semi major axis
- 0.8438 AU
- Orbital period sidereal
- 0.78 yr (283 days)
- Mean anomaly
- 42.104 °
- Mean motion
- 1° 16 17.4 / day
- Inclination
- 5.8546°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 211.54°
- Argument of perihelion
- 39.926°
- Earth moid
- 0.0069 AU · 2.7 LD
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- near-Earth asteroid
- Named after
- Hathor
- Followed by
- 2341 Aoluta
- Follows
- 2339 Anacreon
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 0.3
- Orbital period
- 283.1422301110497
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- Commons category
- 2340 Hathor
- discoverer or inventor
- Charles T. Kowal
- site of astronomical discovery
- Palomar Observatory
- provisional designation
- 1976 UA
- time of discovery or invention
- 1976-10-22
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.4499362680235325
- orbital inclination
- 5.860590932930383
- periapsis
- 0.4641772223384067
- apoapsis
- 1.223544382831028
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.8438608025847174
- mean anomaly
- 201.9797234988166
- longitude of ascending node
- 211.2837101127325
- argument of periapsis
- 40.11847518742348
- absolute magnitude
- 20.43
- rotation period
- 3.35
- asteroid spectral type
- S-type asteroid
- time of periapsis
- 2461124.783926365
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
2340 Hathor (/ˈhæθɔːr, -ər/), provisional designation 1976 UA, is an eccentric stony asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid. It belongs to the Aten group of asteroids and measures approximately 210 meters in diameter. Discovered by Charles Kowal in 1976, it was later named after the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor.
Discovery
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2340 Hathor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.