1115 Sabauda is a carbonaceous Meliboean asteroid from the outer region of the
asteroid belt
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, approximately 68 kilometers in diameter. Discovered in 1928 by Italian astronomer
Luigi Volta
This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). , the discovery of 612,011 nu ...
, it was assigned the provisional designation . The asteroid was probably named after the House of Savoy, the former rulers of Italy.
Discovery
''Sabauda'' was discovered on 13 December 1928, by Italian astronomer
Luigi Volta
This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). , the discovery of 612,011 nu ...
at the
Observatory of Turin
The Observatory of Turin ( it, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, links=no, also known as Pino Torinese; obs. code: 022) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics ( it, Istituto Nazionale ...
(Pino Torinese Observatory). Five nights later, it was independently discovered by Catalan astronomer
Josep Comas i Solà
Josep Comas i Solà (; Barcelona 17 December 1868 – 2 December 1937) was a Spanish astronomer, of Catalan origin, discoverer of minor planets, comets, and double stars.
He wrote his first astronomy notes at 10, and was only fifteen when he ...
at the Fabra Observatory in Barcelona, Spain. The asteroid was first identified as at
Heidelberg Observatory
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in December 1906, and its
observation arc
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begins at Heidelberg in January 1929, one month after its official discovery observation at Pino Torinese.
Orbit and classification
''Sabauda'' is a member of the
Meliboea family
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, a smaller asteroid family of carbonaceous outer-belt asteroids with a few hundred members, named after 137 Meliboea. It orbits the Sun in the