428 Monachia is an asteroid orbiting within the Flora family in the Main Belt.[3]

It was discovered by Walther Villiger on 18 November 1897 in Munich, Germany. It was his only asteroid discovery. The asteroid's name comes from the Latin name for Munich.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "428 Monachia (1897 DK)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  2. ^ a b Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey Archived June 23, 2006, at archive.today
  3. ^ a b Kryszczynska, A.; et al. (October 2012). "Do Slivan states exist in the Flora family?. I. Photometric survey of the Flora region". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 546: 51. Bibcode:2012A&A...546A..72K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219199. A72.
  4. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel (2011). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2006–2008 ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-01966-1.


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