422 Berolina

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422 Berolina
Discovery A
Discoverer G. Witt
Discovery date October 8, 1896
Alternate
designations
B
1896 DA
Category Main belt
Orbital elements C
Epoch 30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.214
Semi-major axis (a) 333.507 Gm (2.229 AU)
Perihelion (q) 262.224 Gm (1.753 AU)
Aphelion (Q) 404.789 Gm (2.706 AU)
Orbital period (P) 1215.79 d (3.33 a)
Mean orbital speed 19.95 km/s
Inclination (i) 4.998°
Longitude of the
ascending node
(Ω)
9.222°
Argument of
perihelion
(ω)
335.079°
Mean anomaly (M) 225.311°
Physical characteristics D
Dimensions 17 - 37 km
Mass unknown
Density unknown
Surface gravity unknown
Escape velocity unknown
Rotation period unknown
Spectral class unknown
Absolute magnitude 10.83
Albedo (geometric) unknown
Mean surface
temperature
unknown
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422 Berolina is a typical Main belt asteroid.

It was discovered by G. Witt on October 8, 1896 in Berlin. It was first of his two asteroid discoveries. The other was the famous asteroid 433 Eros.

Although it has an orbit similar to the Flora family asteroids, it appears to be an unrelated interloper due to not being of the S spectral type (see the PDS asteroid taxonomy data set).