Vanadis ( minor planet designation: 240 Vanadis) is a fairly large

main-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, called ...

asteroid. It is very dark and is classified as a

C-type asteroid C-type (carbonaceous) asteroids are the most common variety, forming around 75% of known asteroids. They are volatile-rich and distinguished by a very low albedo because their composition includes a large amount of carbon, in addition to rocks ...

, probably composed of primitive

carbon Carbon () is a chemical element with the symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetallic and tetravalent—its atom making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds. It belongs to group 14 of the periodic table. Carbon mak ...

aceous material. It was discovered by A. Borrelly on August 27, 1884, in Marseilles and was named after

Freyja In Norse paganism, Freyja (Old Norse "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr (magic for seeing and influencing the future). Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chario ...

(Vanadis), the Norse fertility goddess.

References

External links

The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database

Asteroid Lightcurve Data File
* * Background asteroids Vanadis Vanadis C-type asteroids (Tholen) C-type asteroids (SMASS) 18840827 {{C-beltasteroid-stub