256 Walpurga

Main belt asteroid

256 Walpurga is a large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on 3 April 1886 in Vienna and was named after Saint Walburga.

Photometric observations at the Oakley Observatory in Terre Haute, Indiana, during 2007 were used to build a light curve for this asteroid. The asteroid displayed a rotation period of 16.64 ± 0.02 hours and a brightness variation of 0.38 ± 0.02 in magnitude.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "256 Walpurga". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  2. ^ a b Shipley, Heath; et al. (September 2008), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Palmer Divide Observatory: September 2007" (PDF), The Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 99–101, Bibcode:2008MPBu...35...99S, archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2013, retrieved 23 March 2013.
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  • 256 Walpurga at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
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