832 Karin 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 '' ...

orbiting the Sun. It is the largest and brightest member of the

Karin Cluster The Karin family or Karin cluster is an asteroid family and sub-group of the Koronis family. It consists of at least 90 main-belt asteroids. What makes them special is that scientists have used the orbits of 13 members to calculate backwards until t ...

, which is named after it. Found in 2002, the Karin cluster is notable for being very young. It is currently believed to have formed in a collision only 5.8 million years ago. 832 Karin is an S-Type asteroid, approximately 19 km in diameter. The minor planet is named in honor of Karin Månsdotter, who was the mistress of Erik XIV of Sweden in the 16th century. In 1567, Erik married Karin, but he was pushed from his throne because of this marriage.

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Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB)
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Minor Planet Center * * 000832 000832 Discoveries by Max Wolf Named minor planets 19160920 {{Beltasteroid-stub