1146 Biarmia

Infobox Planet
minorplanet = yes
bgcolour = #FFFFC0
name = 1146 Biarmia cite web | title="JPL Small-Body Database Browser" | url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1146 | accessdate= October 17 | accessyear= 2007 ]
discovery = yes
discoverer = Neujmin, G.
discovered = 1929-May-07
epoch = Orbital Elements at Epoch 2454400.5 (2007-Oct-27.0) TDB
aphelion = 3.8173249 AU
perihelion = 2.2873133 AU
semimajor = 3.0523191 AU
eccentricity = 0.250631
period = 1947.7954040 days
5.33 years
inclination = 17.02851 °
asc_node = 213.99097 °
mean_anomaly = 236.94991 °
arg_peri = 64.30673 °
physical_characteristics = yes| dimensions = diameter 31.14
albedo = 0.2190
abs_magnitude = 9.80 mag
rotation= 11.514 h

1146 Biarmia is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 31 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It completes one rotation once every 12 hours. It was discovered by Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin on May 7, 1929. It was named after a legendary country Bjarmland in northern Russia near the Finnish border. Its provisional designation was 1929 JF. [cite book |last= Schmadel |first= Lutz D. |title= Dictionary of Minor Planet Names |publisher= Springer |year= 2003 |isbn= 3540002383 ]

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