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Fides is a large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by German astronomer Karl Theodor Robert Luther on October 5, 1855, and named after Fides, the Roman goddess of loyalty. Fides was the last of the main-belt asteroids to be assigned an iconic symbol. 37 Fides is also a S-type asteroid in the Tholen classification system.
Ismene is a very large main belt asteroid. It was discovered by German-American astronomer C. H. F. Peters on September 22, 1878, in Clinton, New York, and named after Ismene, the sister of Antigone in Greek mythology.
Ampella is a Main belt asteroid that was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on June 13, 1879. The name seems to be the feminine form of Ampelos, a satyr and good friend of Dionysus in Greek mythology. It could also derive from the Ampelose, a variety of hamadryad. It is an S-type asteroid.
Coelestina is a typical main belt asteroid.
Sita is a background asteroid from the inner region of the asteroid belt, approximately 11 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 14 October 1884, by an Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in the Vienna Observatory. It was named for the Hindu deity Sita.
Eukrate is a rather large main-belt asteroid. It is dark and probably a primitive carbonaceous body. The asteroid was discovered by Robert Luther on March 14, 1885, in Düsseldorf. It was named after Eucrate, a Nereid in Greek mythology.
Tyche is a relatively large main belt asteroid discovered by Robert Luther at Düsseldorf-Bilk Observatory on 4 May 1886. The stony S-type asteroid measures about 65 kilometers in diameter and has a perihelion of 2.1 AU.
Anahita is a stony S-type Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on October 8, 1887, in Clinton, New York, and was named after the Avestan divinity Aredvi Sura Anahita.
Ludovica is a main belt asteroid.
Modestia is probably a typical Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 14 July 1893 in Nice.
Alma is an asteroid from the intermediate asteroid belt, approximately 24 kilometers in diameter. It was Guillaume Bigourdan's only asteroid discovery. He discovered it on 24 March 1894 in Paris.
Monachia is an asteroid orbiting within the Flora family in the Main Belt.
Italia is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered on 23 August 1901 by Italian astronomer Luigi Carnera at Heidelberg.
Jena is a Themistian asteroid. It was discovered in Heidelberg by the German astronomer Max Wolf on 14 March 1904 and named after the city of Jena.
618 Elfriede is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. On July 24, 2013, it occulted the magnitude 12.8 star 2UCAC 23949304, over parts of Mexico and southwestern United States.
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.
657 Gunlöd is a dark background asteroid orbiting in the intermediate asteroid belt, approximately 43 kilometres (27 mi) in diameter. It was discovered on 23 January 1908, by astronomer August Kopff at the Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany. It has an albedo of around 0.042 and a rotation period of 15.7 hours.
823 Sisigambis is an asteroid belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt. Its diameter is about 17 km and it has an albedo of 0.179. Its rotation period is unknown but appears to be greater than at least 12 hours. The asteroid is named after Sisygambis, the mother of Darius III of Persia.
937 Bethgea is a background asteroid from the inner region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 12 September 1920 by German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, from Heidelberg.
2011 GA is a small asteroid that is a Near-Earth object and an Apollo asteroid.
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- ↑ "Asteroid Lightcurve Parameters". archive.is. 14 June 2006. Archived from the original on 14 June 2006. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
