290 Bruna is a main belt asteroid that was discovered on 20 March 1890 by Johann Palisa,[1] an Austrian astronomer at the Vienna Observatory.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico, during 2008 gave a light curve with a period of 13.807 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.54 ± 0.04 in magnitude. Changes in the brightness of the minimum with phase angle is attributed to changes in the shadows across surface features.[3]
It was named by Hofrath August Bielsa for Brünn, now Brno, Czech Republic, Bielsa's home town.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Numbered Minor Planets 1–5000", Discovery Circumstances, IAU Minor Planet center, retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ^ a b Yeomans, Donald K., "290 Bruna", JPL Small-Body Database Browser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ a b Pilcher, Frederick (January 2009), "Period Determinations for 33 Polyhymnia, 38 Leda, 50 Virginia, 189 Phthia, and 290 Bruna", The Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 25–27, Bibcode:2009MPBu...36...25P.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D (2007). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (5th ed.). Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer. p. 40. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
External links
- 290 Bruna at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 290 Bruna at the JPL Small-Body Database
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