422 Berolina
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422 Berolina is a typical Main belt
asteroid
.
It was discovered by G. Witt
on October 8, 1896 in Berlin
. It was first of his two asteroid discoveries. The other was the famous asteroid 433 Eros
.
Although it has an orbit similar to the Flora family
asteroids, it appears to be an unrelated interloper due to not being of the S spectral type
(see the PDS asteroid taxonomy data set).
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
.
It was discovered by G. Witt
Carl Gustav Witt
Carl Gustav Witt was a German astronomer who used to work at the popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin ....
on October 8, 1896 in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. It was first of his two asteroid discoveries. The other was the famous asteroid 433 Eros
433 Eros
433 Eros is a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1898, and the first asteroid to be orbited by a probe . It is an S-type asteroid approximately 34.4×11.2×11.2 km in size, the second-largest NEA after 1036 Ganymed, and belongs to the Amor group.Eros is a Mars-crosser asteroid, the first known...
.
Although it has an orbit similar to the Flora family
Flora family
The Flora family of asteroids is a large grouping of S-type asteroids in the inner main belt, whose origin and properties are relatively poorly understood at present...
asteroids, it appears to be an unrelated interloper due to not being of the S spectral type
S-type asteroid
S-type asteroids are of a stony composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
(see the PDS asteroid taxonomy data set).