742 Edisona is a
minor planet
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orbiting the
Sun
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that was discovered by German astronomer
Franz Kaiser
Franz Heinrich Kaiser (25 April 1891 – 13 March 1962) was a German astronomer.
He worked at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observatory from 1911 to 1914 while working on his Ph.D. there, which he obtained i ...
on February 23, 1913. It was named for inventor
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventi ...
.
[ This asteroid is orbiting with a ]period
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of and an eccentricity
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of 0.119. The orbital plane
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is inclined at an angle of 11.2° to the plane of the ecliptic
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.light curve
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of 742 Edisona showing a rotation period of with a brightness variation of in magnitude
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.[ It spans a girth of approximately 45.6 km.]
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Eos asteroids
Edisona
Edisona
S-type asteroids (Tholen)
K-type asteroids (SMASS)
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