Main-belt asteroid
Hungaria (minor planet designation : 434 Hungaria ) is a relatively small asteroid orbiting in the inner asteroid belt . It is an E-type (high-albedo ) asteroid. It is the namesake of the Hungaria asteroids , which orbit the Sun on the inside of the 1:4 Kirkwood gap , standing out of the core of the asteroid belt.[3]
It was discovered by Max Wolf on 11 September 1898 at the University of Heidelberg . It was named after Hungary , which hosted an astronomical meeting in 1898 in Budapest .[4]
It is thought that there may be a genetic connection between 434 Hungaria and 3103 Eger and the aubrites .[4]
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Lightcurve plot of 434 Hungaria , Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2011)
SDSS image taken on 01APR2003 /Fermats Brother
Relation between 434 Hungaria, 3103 Eger, and e-type asteroids
Near IR-spectra of 3 Hungaria family asteroids: 4483 Petofi, 3169 Ostro and 3940 Larion
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB) , query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine )
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names , Google books
Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
434 Hungaria at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
434 Hungaria at the JPL Small-Body Database