Eduarda (
minor planet designation: 340 Eduarda) is a
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 that was discovered by German astronomer
Max Wolf on 25 September 1892 in
Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
.
It was named after German banker and amateur astronomer
Heinrich Eduard von Lade
Heinrich Eduard von Lade (24 February 1817 – 7 August 1904) was a German banker and amateur astronomer.
He was born in Geisenheim, located along the banks of the Rhine river, the son of a wine merchant. He worked as a banker and exporter in ...
.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Oakley Observatory in
Terre Haute, Indiana, during 2006 gave a
light curve
In astronomy, a light curve is a graph of light intensity of a celestial object or region as a function of time, typically with the magnitude of light received on the y axis and with time on the x axis. The light is usually in a particular frequ ...
with a period of 8.04 ± 0.02 hours and a brightness variation of 0.25 ± 0.03 in
magnitude
Magnitude may refer to:
Mathematics
*Euclidean vector, a quantity defined by both its magnitude and its direction
*Magnitude (mathematics), the relative size of an object
*Norm (mathematics), a term for the size or length of a vector
*Order of ...
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References
External links
Lightcurve plot of 340 Eduarda Palmer Divide Observatory,
B. D. Warner (2006)
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB) query form
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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Google books
– Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
– Minor Planet Center
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Discoveries by Max Wolf
Named minor planets
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