975 Perseverantia is a
minor planet
According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''minor ...
orbiting the
Sun that was discovered by Austrian astronomer
Johann Palisa on 27 March 1922.
This is a member of the dynamic
Koronis family of asteroids that most likely formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a parent body.
The semi-major axis of the orbit of 975 Perseverantia lies just outside the 5/2
Kirkwood gap, located at 2.824
AU.
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Discoveries by Johann Palisa
Named minor planets
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