851 Zeissia is an
S-type asteroid background
asteroid from the inner region of the
asteroid belt. Its diameter is about 12 km and it has an albedo of 0.2646
/sup>. Its rotation period is 9.34 hours
/sup>.
The asteroid is named after the German optician and company founder Carl Zeiss
Carl Zeiss (; 11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as Zeiss (company), Zeiss. Zeiss gathered a group of gifted p ...
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Discoveries by Sergei Belyavsky
Named minor planets
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