440 Theodora
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440 Theodora is a small Main belt
asteroid
.
It was discovered by E. F. Coddington
on October 13, 1898 at Mount Hamilton
. It was his second asteroid discovery.
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 E. F. Coddington
Edwin Foster Coddington
Edwin Foster Coddington was an American astronomer.He co-discovered the comet C/1898 L1 , also known by the older designation Comet 1898 VII. He also discovered a few asteroids, and the galaxy IC 2574 in Ursa Major, which later became known as the "Coddington Nebula"....
on October 13, 1898 at Mount Hamilton
Mount Hamilton (California)
Mount Hamilton is a mountain in California's Diablo Range, in Santa Clara County, California. Mount Hamilton, at is the tallest mountain overlooking Silicon Valley, and is the site of Lick Observatory, the first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. The various summits along its...
. It was his second asteroid discovery.