1152 Pawona

Infobox Planet
minorplanet = yes
bgcolour = #FFFFC0
name = 1152 Pawona cite web | title="JPL Small-Body Database Browser" | url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1152 | accessdate= October 17 | accessyear= 2007 ]
discovery = yes
discoverer = Reinmuth, K.
discovered = 1930-Jan-08
epoch = Orbital Elements at Epoch 2454400.5 (2007-Oct-27.0) TDB
aphelion = 2.5309326 AU
perihelion = 2.321422 AU
semimajor = 2.4261773 AU
eccentricity = 0.0431771
period = 1380.3277680 days
3.78 years
inclination = 5.08316 °
asc_node = 332.07438 °
mean_anomaly = 138.62066 °
arg_peri = 217.38317 °
physical_characteristics = yes| dimensions = diameter 15.69
albedo = 0.2167
abs_magnitude = 11.30 mag
rotation= 3.418 h

1152 Pawona is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 16 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 4 years. It completes one rotation once every 3 hours. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at Heidelberg, Germany on January 8, 1930. It was independently discovered by L. Volta in Pino Torinese on the January 19 and by Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin at Simeis on January 28. Its name is a combination of the names of astronomers J. Palisa and M. Wolf, in recognition of their cooperation. The asteroid's provisional name was 1930 AD. [cite book |last= Schmadel |first= Lutz D. |title= Dictionary of Minor Planet Names |publisher= Springer |year= 2003 |isbn= 3540002383 ]

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