285 Regina

285 Regina is a typical, although fairly large, Main belt asteroid.^[2] It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 3 August 1889 in Nice, France. The asteroid is a suspected interloper in the Eucharis asteroid family.^[3]

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Analysis of the asteroid light curve generated from photometric data collected during 2008 show a rotation period of 9.542±0.001 h with a brightness variation of 0.16±0.03 in magnitude.^[4]

[1]
"Regina". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
[2]
"285 Regina". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
[3]
Novaković, Bojan; et al. (November 2011), "Families among high-inclination asteroids", Icarus, 216 (1): 69–81, arXiv:1108.3740, Bibcode:2011Icar..216...69N, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.016.
[4]
Pilcher, Frederick (April 2010), "Rotation Period Determination for 285 Regina", Bulletin of the Minor Planets Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, vol. 37, no. 2, p. 50, Bibcode:2010MPBu...37...50P.

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