843 Nicolaia 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
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. ...
discovered by Danish astronomer
H. Thiele on 30 September 1916. It was a
lost asteroid for 65 years before being rediscovered by
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut at Heidelberg in 1981.
[ The asteroid is orbiting the Sun with a period of 3.44 years.
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Discoveries by Holger Thiele
Named minor planets
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