{{Short description|Main-belt asteroid}} {{Other uses|Georgia (disambiguation){{!}}Georgia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox planet | minorplanet = yes | background = #D6D6D6 |image= Орбита астероида 359.png |caption=Orbital diagram | name = 359 Georgia | discoverer = Auguste Charlois | discovered = March 10 1893 | mpc_name = (359) Georgia | alt_names = 1893 M | pronounced = {{IPAc-en|'|dʒ|ɔr|dʒ|ə}} {{respell|JOR|jə}}<ref>Noah Webster (1884) ''A Practical Dictionary of the English Language''</ref> | named_after = King George II | mp_category = Main belt | epoch = 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | aphelion = {{Convert|3.1562|AU|Gm|abbr=on|lk=on}} | perihelion = {{Convert|2.2999|AU|Gm|abbr=on}} | semimajor = {{Convert|2.7280|AU|Gm|abbr=on}} | eccentricity = 0.15693 | period = 4.51 yr (1645.8 d) | inclination = 6.7716° | asc_node = 6.0731° | arg_peri = 338.526° | mean_anomaly = 323.972° | dimensions = {{val|43.89|4.2|ul=km}} | mass = | density = | rotation = {{Convert|5.537|h|d|abbr=on|lk=on}} | spectral_type = X | abs_magnitude = 8.86 | albedo = {{val|0.2621|0.059}} | mean_motion = {{Deg2DMS|0.21874|sup=ms}} / day | orbit_ref = <ref name="jpldata">{{Cite web |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=359;cad=1 |title=359 Georgia (1893 M) |work=JPL Small-Body Database |publisher=NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory |access-date=11 July 2025 }}</ref> | observation_arc = 114.10 yr (41676 d) | uncertainty = 0 }}
'''359 Georgia''' is a typical Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an X-type asteroid.
It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 10 1893 in Nice. It was named by the daughter of Felix Klein at a meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in 1902 held at the Georg August University of Göttingen, where Klein was a professor. It was named after the University's founder King George II of Great Britain, Elector of Hanover.<ref>Lutz D. Schmadel (2003) ''Dictionary of Minor Planet Names'', Volume 1, International Astronomical Union, Springer, {{ISBN|3-540-00238-3}}, p. 45</ref>
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== External links == * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20230308165303/https://www.minorplanetobserver.com/pdolc/A359_2009.HTM Lightcurve plot of 359 Georgia]}}, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2009) * [http://www.minorplanet.info/PHP/lcdbsummaryquery.php Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB)], query form ([http://www.minorplanet.info/lightcurvedatabase.html info] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216050541/http://www.minorplanet.info/lightcurvedatabase.html |date=16 December 2017 }}) * [https://books.google.com/books?id=aeAg1X7afOoC&pg Dictionary of Minor Planet Names], Google books * [http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR] – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend * [https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/NumberedMPs000001.html Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000)] – Minor Planet Center * {{AstDys|359}} * {{JPL small body}}
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