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816 Juliana

816 Juliana

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816 Juliana is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It measures 59.85k in diameter. It was discovered on 8 February 1916 by Max Wolf at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observatory in Heidelberg, Germany.

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Wolf probably chose the name to honour Princess Juliana (later Queen Juliana of the Netherlands); he had previously named 392 Wilhelmina after her mother.[2]

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    "816 Juliana (1916 YV)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 19 July 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  2. [2]
    Lutz D. Schmadel (2011). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2006–2008. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-01966-1.


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