Discovered 9 April 1931 Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Absolute magnitude 9.14 Discoverer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth | |
Discovery site Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl Similar 1111 Reinmuthia, 1188 Gothlandia, Asteroid belt, Sun, 1862 Apollo | ||
1180 Rita is a main belt asteroid with a diameter of 97 km. It possesses a 0.159614 eccentricity of and an orbital period of 2 915.88 days (7.99 years).
Rita has an average orbital speed of 14.90283178 km/s and an inclination of 7.19821º.
This asteroid was discovered on 9 April 1931 by Karl Reinmuth. Its provisional name was 1931 GE. Any reference of its later name, Rita, is unknown.
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