368 Haidea is a large asteroid residing in the
asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids ...
.
It was discovered by
Auguste Charlois
Auguste Honoré Charlois (; November 26, 1864 – March 26, 1910) was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working at the Nice Observatory in southeastern France.
Asteroid discovery
His first discovery was the asteroid 267 Tirz ...
on 19 May 1893 in
Nice
Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million[Haydée
''Haydée, ou Le secret'' is an ''opéra comique'' by the French composer Daniel Auber, first performed by the Théâtre Royal de l'Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris on 28 December 1847. The libretto (in three acts) is by Auber's regu ...]
'' or one of several fictional characters named
Haidée. The
Tagish Lake meteorite
The Tagish Lake meteorite fell at 16:43 UTC on 18 January 2000 in the Tagish Lake area in northwestern British Columbia, Canada.
History
Fragments of the Tagish Lake meteorite landed upon the Earth on January 18, 2000, at 16:43 UT (08:43 local ti ...
is believed to derive from 368 Haidea, due to its
reflectance spectrum.
[''Asteroids: Overview, Abstracts, and Bibliography''. (2002:78). United States: Nova Science Publishers.]
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Background asteroids
Haidea
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D-type asteroids (Tholen)
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