Eduarda (
minor planet designation
A formal minor-planet designation is, in its final form, a number–name combination given to a minor planet (asteroid, centaur, trans-Neptunian object and dwarf planet but not comet). Such designation always features a leading number (catalog or ...
: 340 Eduarda) is a
main belt 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.
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that was discovered by German astronomer
Max Wolf
Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (21 June 1863 – 3 October 1932) was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was the chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heidelberg-Kà ...
on 25 September 1892 in
Heidelberg.
It was named after German banker and amateur astronomer
Heinrich Eduard von Lade.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Oakley Observatory in
Terre Haute, Indiana
Terre Haute ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about 5 miles east of the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a ...
, during 2006 gave a
light curve with a period of 8.04 ± 0.02 hours and a brightness variation of 0.25 ± 0.03 in
magnitude.
References
External links
Lightcurve plot of 340 Eduarda Palmer Divide Observatory,
B. D. Warner (2006)
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB) query form
)
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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