1350 Rosselia, provisional designation , is a stony Koronian

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. ...

from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 22 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by astronomer Eugène Delporte at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in 1934, the asteroid was later named after

Marie-Thérèse Rossel Marie-Thérèse Rossel (1 February 1910 – 18 June 1987) was a Belgian newspaper editor and businesswoman who headed the Rossel publishing company for fifty years. Born in Ixelles, her father Victor Rossel was editor and manager of '' Le S ...

, editor of the Belgian newspaper '' Le Soir''.

Discovery

''Rosselia'' was discovered on 3 October 1934, by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle. One month later, it was independently discovered by German astronomer Richard Schorr at the Bergedorf Observatory, Hamburg, on 3 November 1934. The

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only recognizes the first discoverer. The asteroid was first identified as at the Simeiz Observatory in October 1924.

Orbit and classification

''Rosselia'' is a member of the

Koronis family ] The Koronis or Koronian family (), also known as the Lacrimosa family, is a very large asteroid family of S-type asteroid, stony asteroids, located in the Kirkwood gap, outer region of the asteroid belt. They are thought to have been formed at le ...

(), a very large

asteroid family An asteroid family is a population of asteroids that share similar proper orbital elements, such as semimajor axis, eccentricity, and orbital inclination. The members of the families are thought to be fragments of past asteroid collisions. An a ...

with nearly co-planar ecliptical orbits in the

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