Discovered by F. L. Whipple MPC designation 1252 Celestia Minor planet category main-belt Orbits Sun Discoverer Fred Lawrence Whipple Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Discovery date 19 February 1933 Alternative names 1933 DG ยท 1934 PA1 Discovered 19 February 1933 | |
Named after Celestia Whipple (mother) Similar 193 Ambrosia, 499 Venusia, 167 Urda, 76 Freia, 306 Unitas | ||
1252 Celestia, provisional designation 1933 DG, is a stony main-belt asteroid discovered on February 19, 1933, by American astronomer Fred Whipple at Oak Ridge Observatory operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Massachusetts, United States. The S-type asteroid measures about 17 kilometers in diameter, rotates once every 10.6 hours and is heavily tilted towards the ecliptic by almost 34 degrees.
It was named after the mother of the discoverer, Celestia MacFarland Whipple.
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