1188 Gothlandia
Encyclopedia
1188 Gothlandia is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on September 30, 1930 by Josep Comas Solà
at Barcelona
.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
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 on September 30, 1930 by Josep Comas Solà
Josep Comas Solá
Josep Comas i Solà was a Catalan Spanish astronomer.He observed planets including Mars and Saturn, measuring the period of rotation of the latter...
at Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
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External links
- JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 1188 Gothlandia
- http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004PDSS....1...77B