Introduction

It is an asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

 discovered by Johann Palisa

Johann Palisa

Johann Palisa was an Austrian astronomer, born in Opava in Austrian Silesia .He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 122 in all, from 136 Austria in 1874 to 1073 Gellivara in 1923...

 on October 3, 1910 with an estimated diameter

Diameter

In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints are on the circle. The diameters are the longest chords of the circle...

 of 13 km. It was named for Baroness Valentine Noémi von Rothschild (1886-1969) to celebrate her engagement to Baron Sigismund von Springer (1873-1927). Noémi von Rothschild's father, Baron Rothschild, had recently donated to the Vienna Obsevatory.

External links

• Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets