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614 Pia

614 Pia

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614 Pia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt. August Kopff discovered 614 Pia on 11 October 1906 at Heidelberg, Germany.[2][3]

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The Name

Its name may have been inspired by the Pia Observatory at Trieste, Italy, which German astronomer Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865–1902) named for his wife, Pia.[2] Pia is Italian for "pious."

References

  1. [1]
    "614 Pia (1906 VQ)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  2. [2]
    "614 Pia". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Numbered Minor Planet Discoveries". Harvard University. Retrieved 14 November 2014.


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