317 Roxane
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317 Roxane is a typical Main belt
asteroid
.
It was discovered by Auguste Charlois
on September 11, 1891 in Nice
, and was at first named Roxana.
Recently, a team identified 317 Roxane as the closest known spectroscopic match for the Peña Blanca Spring meteorite that impacted in a swimming pool in Texas in 1946. There is a possibility, therefore, that 317 Roxane is from the parent object as this meteorite.
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...
.
It was discovered by Auguste Charlois
Auguste Charlois
Auguste Honoré Charlois was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice.His first discovery was the asteroid 267 Tirza in 1887...
on September 11, 1891 in Nice
Nice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
, and was at first named Roxana.
Recently, a team identified 317 Roxane as the closest known spectroscopic match for the Peña Blanca Spring meteorite that impacted in a swimming pool in Texas in 1946. There is a possibility, therefore, that 317 Roxane is from the parent object as this meteorite.
External links
- http://www.meteorite.com/meteorite-gallery/meteorite-pages/Pena_Blanca_Spring.htm
- http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM32/AM32_354.pdf