449 Hamburga is a large Main belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomers Max Wolf and A. Schwassmann on October 31 1899 in Heidelberg. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material. In the 1990s NASA considered a spacecraft mission to the asteroid including a tie-in with McDonald’s.It was predicted that 449 occulted the star HIP 1424 in July 2013.
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