Discovery date 28 March 1900 Alternative names 1900 FC Observation arc 116.05 yr (42387 d) Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | MPC designation 454 Minor planet category main belt Discovered 28 March 1900 Named after Mathematics | |
Discovered by Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann Discoverer Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann Discovery site Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory Similar 441 Bathilde, 417 Suevia, 528 Rezia, 484 Pittsburghia, 423 Diotima | ||
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.
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.
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