324 Bamberga is the 16th largest asteroid in the Main asteroid belt. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on February 25, 1892 in Vienna, making it one of the last large (diameter over 200 km) asteroids discovered. Johann Palisa (December 6, 1848 – May 2, 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau in Austrian Silesia (now in the Czech Republic). ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The provisional designation of comets and asteroids are similar to each other: they both follow a pattern set in 1925 by the Minor Planet Center of the IAU. Historical designations At first, astronomers strove to assign symbols to the minor planets: 1 Ceres a stylized sickle 2 Pallas a lozenge... 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The kelvin (symbol: K) is the SI unit of temperature, and is one of the seven SI base units. ... An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... Image of the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. ... Johann Palisa (December 6, 1848 – May 2, 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau in Austrian Silesia (now in the Czech Republic). ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine states (Land Wien). ...

It has an unusually long rotation period among the large asteroids. Its spectral class is intermediate between the C-type and P-type asteroids^[4]. C-type asteroids are carbonaceous asteroids. ... P-type asteroids have low albedo and a featureless reddish spectrum. ...

An occultation of Bamberga was observed on 8 December 1987, and gave a diameter of about 228 km, in agreement with IRAS results. December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) was a space-based observatory that performed a survey of the entire sky at infrared wavelengths. ...

Bamberga in fiction

One chapter of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's novel Space Apprentice (1962) is staged on Bamberga. A mine is located on the asteroid, producing fictional "space pearls". ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine This article is about mineral extraction. ...

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References

1. Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey
2. E. V. Pitjeva, Estimations of Masses of the Largest Asteroids and the Main Asteroid Belt From Ranging to Planets, Mars Orbiters And Landers Solar System Resarch, Vol. 39 pp. 176 (2005).
3. Planetary Data System Small Bodies Node, lightcurve parameters
4. Planetary Data System Small Bodies Node, Asteroid taxonomies

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