92 Undina
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92 Undina is a large main belt asteroid
. It has an unusually high albedo and an M-type spectrum
. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters
on July 7, 1867. It is named for the eponymous heroine of Undine
, a popular novella
by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
. Undina is a member of the Veritas asteroid family
, which formed some eight million years ago. See 490 Veritas
for details.
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 has an unusually high albedo and an M-type spectrum
M-type asteroid
M-type asteroids are asteroids of partially known composition; they are moderately bright . Some, but not all, are made of nickel-iron, either pure or mixed with small amounts of stone. These are thought to be pieces of the metallic core of differentiated asteroids that were fragmented by impacts,...
. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters was a German-American astronomer, and one of the first to discover asteroids....
on July 7, 1867. It is named for the eponymous heroine of Undine
Undine (novella)
Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages...
, a popular novella
Novella
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...
by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué was a German writer of the romantic style.-Biography:He was born at Brandenburg an der Havel, of a family of French Huguenot origin, as evidenced in his family name...
. Undina is a member of the Veritas asteroid family
Asteroid family
An asteroid family is a population of asteroids that share similar proper orbital elements, such as semimajor axis, eccentricity, and orbital inclination. The members of the families are thought to be fragments of past asteroid collisions...
, which formed some eight million years ago. See 490 Veritas
490 Veritas
490 Veritas is a large asteroid, which may have been involved in one of the more massive asteroid-asteroid collisions of the past 100 million years....
for details.