633 Zelima is a
minor planet
According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''minor ...
orbiting the
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared radi ...
in the asteroid belt with a magnitude of 10.7.
The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation ''1907 ZM''.
References
External links
Lightcurve plot of 633 Zelima 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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Eos asteroids
Zelima
Zelima
S-type asteroids (Tholen)
S-type asteroids (SMASS)
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