1093 Freda, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer regions of the
asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies, of many sizes, but much smaller than planets, c ...
's background population, approximately 110 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 15 June 1925, by astronomer
Benjamin Jekhowsky
Benjamin Jekhowsky ( ru , Вениамин Павлович Жеховский, born 1881 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), died in 1975, Encausse-les-Thermes (France)) was a Russian–French astronomer, born in Saint-Petersburg in a noble family o ...
at the
Algiers Observatory
The Algiers Observatory was built in the late 19th century in the Algiers suburb of Bouzaréah, Algeria, North Africa. It participated in the Astrographic Catalogue project, taking the zone between -2 and +4 degrees to expose 1,260 plates between ...
in Algeria, North Africa. The asteroid was named after French engineer Fred Prévost.
Orbit and classification
''Freda'' is a non-
family
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