454_Mathesis

454 Mathesis

454 Mathesis

Main-belt asteroid

Mathesis (minor planet designation: 454 Mathesis) is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann on March 28, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FC.

Quick Facts Discovery, Discovered by ...

Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Altimira Observatory in 2004 gave a light curve with a period of 8.37784 ± 0.00003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.32 in magnitude. This differs from periods of 7.075 hours reported in 1994 and 7.745 hours in 1998.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "mathesis". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  2. [2]
    Yeomans, Donald K., "454 Mathesis", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 10 May 2016.
  3. [3]
    Buchheim, Robert K. (June 2006), "Photometry of asteroids 133 Cyrene, 454 Mathesis, 477 Italia, and 2264 Sabrina", Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 29–30, Bibcode:2006MPBu...33...29B.


Stub icon

This article about an asteroid native to the asteroid belt is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 454_Mathesis, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.