Main-belt asteroid
285 Regina is a typical, although fairly large, Main belt asteroid .[ 2] It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 3 August 1889 in Nice, France . The asteroid is a suspected interloper in the Eucharis asteroid family .[ 3]
Analysis of the asteroid light curve generated from photometric data collected during 2008 show a rotation period of 9.542± 0.001 h with a brightness variation of 0.16± 0.03 in magnitude .[ 4]
References
^ "Regina" . Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press . (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
^ a b "285 Regina" . JPL Small-Body Database . NASA /Jet Propulsion Laboratory . Retrieved 11 May 2016 .
^ Novaković, Bojan; et al. (November 2011), "Families among high-inclination asteroids", Icarus , 216 (1): 69– 81, arXiv :1108.3740 , Bibcode :2011Icar..216...69N , doi :10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.016 .
^ Pilcher, Frederick (April 2010), "Rotation Period Determination for 285 Regina", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers , vol. 37, no. 2, p. 50, Bibcode :2010MPBu...37...50P .
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