Minor planet category Main belt Aphelion 3.2036 AU (479.25 Gm) Orbits Sun Named after Gudrun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Discovery date 22 September 1884 Observation arc 131.23 yr (47931 d) Discovered 22 September 1884 | |
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Perihelion 2.52045 AU (377.054 Gm) Similar 220 Stephania, 178 Belisana, 276 Adelheid, 265 Anna, 266 Aline | ||
242 Kriemhild is a main belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on September 22, 1884 in Vienna and was named after Kriemhild, a mythological Germanic princess, by Moriz von Kuffner, a Viennese industrialist and sponsor of astronomy.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Oakley Observatory in Terre Haute, Indiana during 2006 gave a light curve with a period of 4.558 ± 0.003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.15 ± 0.02 in magnitude.
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