148 Gallia is an asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt , approximately 90 kilometers (56 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 7 August 1875, by the French brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry at the Paris, but the credit for this discovery was given to Prosper.[ 1] It was named after the Latin name for the country of France, Gaul .[ 3] Based upon its spectrum, it is an unusual G-type asteroid (GU) and a stony S-type asteroid in the Tholen and SMASS classification , respectively.[ 4] [ 18]
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the European Southern Observatory in 1977–78 gave a light curve with a period of 0.86098 ± 0.00030 days (20.6635 ± 0.0072 h) and a brightness variation of 0.32 in magnitude .[ 12] A 2007 study at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado, United States, yielded a period of 20.666 ± 0.002 hours with a magnitude variation of 0.21.[ 13] [ b]
This object is the namesake of the Gallia family (802 ), a small family of nearly 200 known stony asteroids that share similar spectral properties and orbital elements .[ 19] Hence they may have arisen from the same collisional event. All members have a relatively high orbital inclination .[ 20]
Notes ^ Warner (2011) web: modeled lightcurve gave a rotation period 20.665266 hours. Summary figures for (148) Gallia at the LCDB ^ a b Lightcurve plot of 148 Gallia , Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2007): rotation period 20.666± 0.002 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.21± 0.02 mag. Quality code of 2+. Summary figures at the LCDB
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