257_Silesia

257 Silesia

257 Silesia

Asteroid

Silesia (minor planet designation: 257 Silesia) is a large Main belt asteroid, about 73 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on 5 April 1886 at Vienna Observatory, Austria.

Light curve-based 3D-model of Silesia

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It is named after Silesia, the province of the discoverer's birthplace (nowadays most of Silesia is in Poland, but Palisa's birthplace is in the small part of Silesia that is in the Czech Republic).[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 257 Silesia" (2015-09-16 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Silesia". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  3. [3]
    Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
  4. [4]
    Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (257) Silesia. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 38. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_258. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.


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