1885 J Palisa discovers asteroid #250 Bettina?
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250 Bettina was discovered by Johann Palisa on September 3, 1885 in Vienna. It was named in honour of Baroness Bettina von Rothschild, the wife of the prominent Viennese banker Albert Salomon von Rothschild who had bought the nameing rights for £50\n\nAlbert Salomon von Rothschild (October 29, 1844 - February 11, 1911) was a banker in Austria-Hungary and a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria.\n\nBorn in Vienna, he was the youngest child of Anselm von Rothschild (1803-1874) and Charlotte von Rothschild (1807-1859). Known in the family as "Salbert," he was educated in Vienna and Brünn\n\nOn his father's death in 1874, brothers Nathaniel and Ferdinand inherited most of the family's real estate and art collection. However, the family business went to Albert including the S M von Rothschild bank, the single largest shareholding in the Creditanstalt, and the shares in the Northern Railway. After two generations in Austria, communications between his family and the Rothschilds in England had diminished considerably but Albert wisely reinstated the regular exchange of vital information on current economic matters and politics in their respective countries.\n\nIn 1876, Albert von Rothschild married Baroness Bettina Caroline de Rothschild (1858-1892) of Paris, France, daughter of Alphonse James de Rothschild. They had the following children:\n\nGeorg Anselm Alphonse (March 22, 1877 - January 10, 1934), never married, he died in a private mental hospital and was buried in the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna \nAlfons Maier (1878-1942) \nCharlotte Esther (1879-1885) \nLudwig (Louis) Nathaniel (1882-1955) \nEugène Daniel (1884-1976) \nValentine Noémi (1886-1969) \nOskar Ruben (1888-1909), never married, at age 21 he committed suicide and was buried in the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna \n\nAlbert von Rothschild owed several large properties including the Palais Albert Rothschild at Prinz-Eugen-Straße 20-22, in the IV. district Wieden district of Vienna designed by the French architect Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur and built between 1876 and 1882.\n\nIn December of 1887 Albert and his wife were given the right to be presented at Court, the first time such a privilege had been granted in Austria to persons of the Jewish faith. Albert continued the family's involvement in the arts and with philanthropic projects. An avid chess player, he sponsored tournaments and in 1872 became president and patron of the Vienna chess society and took a special interest in institutions that provided assistance to Jewish artists and musicians. Following his wife's passing in 1892 at the young age of thirty-four, in her memory Albert von Rothschild built the Bettina Frauenspital (Bettina Hospital for Women) and a Bettina Rothschild begonia was named for her. A benefactor of the Vienna Observatory, the Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa named the large Main belt asteroid he discovered in 1885 the 250 Bettina in her honor.\n\nAlbert was awarded the Iron Cross of Merit in 1893 for his role in Austro-Hungarian monetary reform.\n\nWhen his unmarried and childless brother Nathaniel died in 1905, Albert inherited his Palais Rothschild at 14-16 Theresianumgasse in Vienna along with its large collection of art.\n\nAlbert Salomon von Rothschild died in Vienna in 1911 and was interred next to his wife and their six-year-old daughter Charlotte in the city's Zentralfriedhof. In recognition of Albert von Rothschild's years of financial support, the 719 Albert Amor asteroid was named in his memory by astronomer Johann Palisa.
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the answer is jupiter.  galileo discovered io, europa, ganymede, and callisto in 1610.
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Are you talking about the "Iron Mistress"?\nLegend has it that it was made out of a falling star, or as more commonly known as a meteor.
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ok here we go !!!!\n\n \nASTRONOMY QUIZ ANSWERS\n\nHere is the astronomy answers fir the quiz at the millsberry acadomy lab...\n\n1.caloris basin\n2.subsolar point\n3.venus\n4.phobus and deimos\n5.set of thousand rings\n6.metal\n7.venus\n8.northern\n9.thick atmosphere\n10.false\n11.love and beauty\n12.iron\n13.hydrogen and helium\n14.true\n15.true\n16.underground ocean\n17.saturn\n18.-29.5\n19.great red spot\n20.crystallized ammonia\n21.ice\n22.asteroids\n23.a month\n24.venus,pluto,uranus\n25.spiral\n26.gas\n27.false\n28.mercury\n29.meteor\n30.away from the sun\n31.orion
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Born: Dover, Delaware, December 11, 1863 \nDied: Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 13, 1941 \n\nTheorist of Star Spectra \nOh, Be A Fine Girl--Kiss Me! This phrase has helped several generations of astronomers to learn the spectral classifications of stars. Ironically, this mnemonic device, still used today, refers to a scheme developed by a woman. \n\nAnnie Jump Cannon was the eldest of three daughters of Wilson Cannon, a Delaware shipbuilder and state senator, and his second wife, Mary Jump. Annie's mother taught her the constellations and stimulated her interest in astronomy. At Wellesley, Annie studied physics and astronomy and learned to make spectroscopic measurements. On her graduation in 1884, she returned to Delaware for a decade, but became impatient to get back to astronomy. After the death of her mother in 1894, Cannon worked at Wellesley as a junior physics teacher and became a "special student" of astronomy at Radcliffe. \n\nIn 1896, she became a member of the group that historians of science have dubbed "Pickering's Women," women hired by Harvard College Observatory director Edward Pickering to reduce data and carry out astronomical calculations. Pickering's approach to science was thoroughly Baconian: "the first step is to accumulate the facts."* The accumulating was supported by a fund set up in 1886 by Anna Draper, widow of Henry Draper, a wealthy physician and amateur astronomer. \n\nPickering conceived the Henry Draper Memorial as a long-term project to obtain optical spectra of as many stars as possible and to index and classify stars by their spectra. While the measurements were difficult enough, the development of a reasonable classification scheme proved as much a problem in "theory" (which Pickering was slow to recognize) as "fact accumulation." \n\nThe analysis was begun in 1886 by Nettie Farrar, who left after a few months to be married. Her place was taken by Williamina Fleming, the first of Pickering's female crew to be recognized in the astronomical community at large. Fleming examined the spectra of more than 10,000 stars and developed a classification system containing 22 classes. The work was carried further by Antonia Maury, who developed her own classification system. The system was cumbersome by comparison with Fleming's, and Pickering could not sympathize with Maury's insistence on theoretical (what we would today call astrophysical) concerns that underlay her scheme. \n\nIt was left to Annie Jump Cannon to continue, beginning with an examination of bright southern hemisphere stars. To these she applied yet a third scheme, derived from Fleming's and Maury's, an "arbitrary" division of stars into the spectral classes O, B, A, F, G, K, M, and so on. It was as "theory-laden" as Maury's ordering, but greatly simplified. Her "eye" for stellar spectra was phenomenal, and her Draper catalogs (which ultimately listed nearly 400,000 stars) were valued as the work of a single observer. \n\nCannon also published catalogs of variable stars (including 300 she discovered). Her career spanned more than forty years, during which women in science won grudging acceptance. She received many "firsts" (first recipient of an honorary doctorate from Oxford, first woman elected an officer of the American Astronomical Society, etc.). At Harvard she was named Curator of Astronomical Photographs, but it was only in 1938, two years before her retirement, that she obtained a regular Harvard appointment as William C. Bond Astronomer.
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Check\n\nhttp://usuarios.lycos.es/mrvalverde/GC13501.HTM
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""An asteroid possibly as large as a half-mile or more in diameter is rapidly approaching the Earth.  There is no need for concern, for no collision is in the offing, but the space rock will make an exceptionally close approach to our planet early on Monday, July 3, passing just beyond the Moon’s average distance from Earth.  \n\nAstronomers will attempt to get a more accurate assessment of the asteroid’s size by “pinging” it with radar.  \n\nAnd skywatchers with good telescopes and some experience just might be able to get a glimpse of this cosmic rock as it streaks rapidly past our planet in the wee hours Monday. The closest approach occurs late Sunday for U.S. West Coast skywatchers.\n\nThe asteroid, designated 2004 XP14, was discovered on Dec. 10, 2004 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR), a continuing camera survey to keep watch for asteroids that may pass uncomfortably close to Earth.  \n\nAlthough initially there were concerns that this asteroid might possibly impact Earth later this century and thus merit special monitoring, further analysis of its orbit has since ruled out any such collision, at least in the foreseeable future.\n............................\nThe size of 2004 XP 14 is not precisely known. But based on its brightness, the diameter is believed to be somewhere in the range of 1,345 to 3,018-feet  (410 to 920 meters). That's between a quarter mile and just over a half-mile wide. ""\n\nI don't think that will happen anything even if it collides with the moon.
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Seems to me there only 10 right now, with Xena maintaining a present orbit of 97AU.  Unless you count Sedna at 90AU(and the jury is still out on whether it is large enough to qualify)
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here are several:\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=slv3&p=Georgia%27s+discovery
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An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. An asteroid is an example of a minor planet (or planetoid). These minor planets are much less massive than even small planets such as Mercury or Mars. It is believed that most asteroids are remnants of the protoplanetary disc. The incorporation of these remnants into the planets during the formation of the Solar System was prevented by large gravitational perturbations induced by Jupiter. Some asteroids have moons. The vast majority of the asteroids are within the main asteroid belt, with elliptical orbits between those of Mars and Jupiter.
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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was the first woman in space. however, on Vostok 6 in 1963
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The asteroid you are referring to is actually called "Apophis" which is the greek name for an Egyptian god, also known as the "Destroyer". Apophis is also called 2004 MN4. It is projected to come very close to the earth on April 13, 2029. So far, astronomers have calculated that it will miss the earth by a safe margin, however the gravitational pull of the earth could alter the orbit, putting the asteroid on a much more dangerous course in coming years. Currently, there are talks about launching a device to better monitor it's travels.
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Look for North Star !!
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it wont be here.....2036 theres an asteroid set to collide with earth the size of Texas...heard it on APNews
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Thank you very much for the link you gave. I read this news yesterday night on Yahoo. I have forgotten about this until you have remind me. Thank you again.  \nIs there any other way for us to view it other than using a telescope? I don't have a telescope.
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Today kids are not taught that Ceres was once a planet, before it got downgraded to the newly created category of asteroid in about 1850. So I suspect that in 100 years the whole Pluto thing will be forgotten in the same way.
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Nope, nothing that we have found will be coming very near us on that date.  Just to give an update on the object the Braxton_Paul mentioned, 2004MN4 (now designated 99942 Apophis), has pretty much been put into the clear for the close approach in 2029.  It will come close, but unless something funny happens to the orbit (collision, unexpected outgassing phase etc), it will miss us.\n\nWhat we are trying to get a fix on now is the next close pass by this bad-boy: 2036.  We can't rule out an impact probablitity for that encounter yet.