1116 Catriona is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Cyril Jackson on April 5 1929 at Johannesburg South Africa. Its provisional designation was 1929 GD. It was probably named after the 1893 novel by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson a Scottish poet novelist and travel writer. It is approximately 39 km in diameter and completes one revolution around the Sun once every 5 years.
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