374 Burgundia
Synodic rotation period | 6.972 h (0.2905 d) | |
| 0.3014±0.018 | ||
| S | ||
| 8.67,[2] 8.68[3] | ||
Burgundia (
minor planet designation: 374 Burgundia) is a typical main belt asteroid that was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 18 September 1893 in Nice. It was named for the former French region of Burgundy. It is one of seven of Charlois's discoveries that was expressly named by the Astromomisches Rechen-Institut (Astronomical Calculation Institute).[4]
Burgundia was long thought to be a member of the now defunct
Ceres asteroid family, but it was found to be an unrelated interloper in that group based on its non-matching composition.[5]
References
- ^ "Burgundian". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 11 May 2016.
- Bibcode:2007MPBu...34..113W.
- ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
- ^ Cellino, A . et al. "Spectroscopic Properties of Asteroid Families", in Asteroids III, University of Arizona Press, pp. 633-643 (2002).
External links
- 374 Burgundia at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 374 Burgundia at the JPL Small-Body Database
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