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1146 Biarmia

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Discovered by
  
Observation arc
  
86.76 yr (31690 days)

Perihelion
  
2.2698 AU (339.56 Gm)

Discovered
  
7 May 1929

Orbits
  
Sun

Discovery site
  
Discovery date
  
7 May 1929

Aphelion
  
3.8212 AU (571.64 Gm)

Semi-major axis
  
3.0455 AU (455.60 Gm)

Absolute magnitude
  
9.8

Discoverer
  
Grigory Neujmin

Asteroid group
  
Asteroid belt

Similar
  
1111 Reinmuthia, 426 Hippo, 1102 Pepita, Asteroid belt, Sun

1146 biarmia


1146 Biarmia is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 31 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It was discovered by Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin on May 7, 1929. After being assigned a provisional designation of 1929 JF, it was named after a legendary country Bjarmland in northern Russia near the Finnish border.

Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 1999 show a rotation period of 11.514 ± 0.004 hours with a brightness variation of 0.32 magnitude.

References

1146 Biarmia Wikipedia


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