374 Burgundia

Minor Planet | name=374 Burgundia
discoverer=Auguste Charlois
discovery_date=September 18, 1893
designations=1893 AK
category=Main belt
epoch=30 January, 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
semimajor=415.966 Gm (2.781 AU)
perihelion=382.91 Gm (2.56 AU)
aphelion=449.021 Gm (3.002 AU)
eccentricity=0.079
period=1693.512 d (4.64 a)
inclination=8.986°
asc_node=219.238°
arg_peri=27.587°
mean_anomaly=119.563°
speed=17.86 km/s
dimensions=45.0 km
mass="unknown"
density="unknown"
gravity="unknown"
escape_velocity="unknown"
rotation="unknown"
spectral_class=S
abs_mag=8.67
albedo="unknown"
temperature="unknown"

374 Burgundia is a typical Main belt asteroid. [ [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi#top JPL Small-Body Database Browser ] ] It is classified as an S-type asteroid.

It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on September 18, 1893 in Nice. It was named for the former French region of Burgandy. It is one of seven of Charlois's discoveries that was expressly named by the Astromomisches Rechen-Institut (Astronomical Calculation Institute). [ Schmadel Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (fifth edition), Springer, 2003. ISBN-10: 3540002383.]

Burgundia was long thought to be a member of the now defunct Ceres asteroid family, but it was found to be an unrelated interloper in that group based on its non-matching composition. [Cellino, A . et al. "Spectroscopic Properties of Asteroid Families", in Asteroids III, University of Arizona Press, pp. 633-643 (2002).]

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