323 Brucia was the first asteroid to be discovered by the use of astrophotography. It was also the first of over 200 asteroids discovered by Max Wolf, a pioneer in that method of finding astronomical objects. Discovered in 1891, it was named in honour of Catherine Wolfe Bruce, a noted patroness of the science of astronomy. It happens to be a Mars-crosser asteroid.
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Brucia war der erste Asteroid, der auf fotografischem Wege entdeckt wurde.
Brucia bewegt sich in einem Abstand von 1,6649 (Perihel) bis 3,1003 (Aphel) astronomischen Einheiten in 3,679 Jahren auf einer exzentrischen Bahn um die Sonne.
Brucia hat einen Durchmesser von etwa 36 Kilometern.
In 1888 he was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Heidelberg, and joined the staff of that institution in 1890.
He pioneered the use of astrophotographic techniques to automate the discovery of asteroids, as opposed to older visual methods, as a result of which asteroid discovery rates sharply increased.
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