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400 Ducrosa is a typical Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 15 March 1895 in Nice.
501 Urhixidur is a relatively large main belt asteroid. It was discovered on 18 January 1903, by astronomer Max Wolf (1863–1932), at the Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany. Like 500 Selinur and 502 Sigune, it is named after a character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's then-bestseller satirical novel Auch Einer.
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486 Cremona is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
494 Virtus is an 86 km minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Max Wolf on October 7, 1902. Its provisional name was 1902 JV.
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506 Marion is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Raymond Smith Dugan in February 1903, and was later named after a cousin of his. It is designated as a C-type asteroid with a size of approximately 104 kilometres (64.6 mi).
507 Laodica is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
521 Brixia is a relatively large minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting mostly in the asteroid belt that was discovered by American astronomer Raymond Smith Dugan on January 10, 1904. The name derives from Brixia, the ancient name of the Italian city of Brescia.
616 Elly is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is a member of the Maria family of asteroids.
633 Zelima is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt with a magnitude of 10.7. The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1907 ZM.
635 Vundtia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun - though this claim has been disputed.
643 Scheherezade is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after the fictional storyteller Sheherazad.
663 Gerlinde is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
696 Leonora is a Meliboean asteroid orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt. It was discovered 10 January 1910 by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf, at Taunton, Massachusetts. It was named by Arthur Snow of the United States Naval Observatory, who computed the orbit for the planet, after his wife, Mary Leonora Snow.
708 Raphaela is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
860 Ursina is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered in 1917 by German astronomer Max Wolf. The origin of the name is unknown.
875 Nymphe is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is a member of the Maria family of asteroids.
947 Monterosa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
References
- ↑ "500 Selinur (1903 LA)". JPL Small-Body Database . NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory . Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2013). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 84. ISBN 978-3-662-02804-9.
