Kaʻepaokaʻāwela

Translingual

Alternative forms

Etymology

Coined from Hawaiian ka (“the”) + ʻepa (“tricky, mischievous”) + o (“of”) + Kaʻāwela (“Jupiter”), referring to its contrary orbit with Jupiter.

Pronunciation

  • (Hawaiian) IPA(key): /kaˌʔe.pa.oˌka.ʔaːˈwe.la/, [kəˌʔɛ.pə.oˌkɐ.ʔaːˈʋɛ.lə]

Proper noun

Kaʻepaokaʻāwela

  1. (astronomy) 514107 Kaʻepaokaʻawela, a retrograde Trojan asteroid of Jupiter, the first such known.

Synonyms

  • 514107 Kaʻepaokaʻawela
  • 2015 BZ509
  • Bee-Zed
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.