Tags: Planet.

186 Celuta is a fairly large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by the French astronomers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on April 6 1878. This was the last discovery credited to the Prosper brothers. It is classified as an S-type asteroid.The asteroid is named after Céluta a female character in two works of fiction by François-René de Chateaubriand Atala (1801) and René (1802). The Henry brothers had already named another of their discoveries 152 Atala after the heroine of Atala.

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "186 Celuta"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.