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359 Georgia

359 Georgia is a typical Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an X-type asteroid.


Column 1
Orbital diagram
Auguste Charlois
March 10 1893
(359) Georgia
/ˈdʒɔːrdʒə/ JOR-jə
King George II
1893 M
Main belt
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
114.10 yr (41676 d)
3.1562 AU (472.16 Gm)
2.2999 AU (344.06 Gm)
2.7280 AU (408.10 Gm)
0.15693
4.51 yr (1645.8 d)
323.972°
0° 13m 7.464s / day
6.7716°
6.0731°
338.526°
43.89±4.2 km
5.537 h (0.2307 d)
0.2621±0.059
X
8.86
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359 Georgia is a typical Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an X-type asteroid.

It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 10 1893 in Nice. It was named by the daughter of Felix Klein at a meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in 1902 held at the Georg August University of Göttingen, where Klein was a professor. It was named after the University's founder King George II of Great Britain, Elector of Hanover.

  • Lightcurve plot of 359 Georgia, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2009)
  • Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
  • Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
  • Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
  • Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
  • 359 Georgia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
    • Ephemeris · Observation prediction · Orbital info · Proper elements · Observational info
  • 359 Georgia at the JPL Small-Body Database
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