1998 Titius is an asteroid discovered in 1938 by Alfred Bohrmann at Heidelberg. It is named after the German astronomer Johann Daniel Titius best known for formulating the Titius-Bode law along with Johann Elert Bode. Based upon photometric measurements made at the Santana Observatory this object has a rotation period of 6.13 ± 0.01 hours during which it varies in magnitude by 0.30 ± 0.04. It has a 2:1 orbital resonance with the planet Mars.
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