• Denmark Gefion family, a grouping of asteroids in the intermediate main belt 1272 Gefion, a main-belt asteroid SMS Gefion, a light cruiser of the Kaiserliche...
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  • The Gefion family (FIN: 516; adj. Gefionian; also known as the Ceres family or the Minerva family) is an asteroid family located in the intermediate asteroid...
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    The largest asteroid to be a true member of a family is 4 Vesta. (This is in contrast to an interloper, in the case of Ceres with the Gefion family.) The...
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    is 1 Ceres, the largest asteroid, which is an interloper in the family once named after it (the Ceres family, now the Gefion family). Spectral characteristics...
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  • 1272 Gefion, provisional designation 1931 TZ1, is a stony asteroid and parent body of the Gefion family from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately...
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    member of the Gefion family, the members of which share similar proper orbital elements, suggesting a common origin through an asteroid collision in the...
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    93 Minerva is a large trinary main-belt asteroid. It is a C-type asteroid, meaning that it has a dark surface and possibly a primitive carbonaceous composition...
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  • 255 Oppavia (category Gefion asteroids)
    255 Oppavia is a sizeable Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on 31 March 1886 in Vienna and was named after Opava...
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  • 1433 Geramtina (category Gefion asteroids)
    Geramtina, provisional designation 1937 UC, is a stony Gefion asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 14 kilometers in diameter....
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  • 10245 Inselsberg (category Gefion asteroids)
    Inselsberg, provisional designation 6071 P-L, is a Gefion asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers (4 miles) in diameter...
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    comets, minor planets are all small bodies in the Solar System, including asteroids, distant objects and dwarf planets. The catalog consists of hundreds of...
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  • 2905 Plaskett (category Gefion asteroids)
    Arizona. The asteroid was named after Canadian astronomers John Stanley Plaskett and Harry Hemley Plaskett. Plaskett is a member of the Gefion family (516)...
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  • 1751 Herget (category Gefion asteroids)
    has been characterized as a common S-type asteroid, which agrees with the overall spectral type of the Gefion family.: 23  According to the survey carried...
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  • 3724 Annenskij (category Gefion asteroids)
    member of the Gefion family (516), a large asteroid family in the intermediate asteroid belt, named after 1272 Gefion. It is also known as the Ceres or Minerva...
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    In Norse mythology, Gefjon (Old Norse: [ˈɡevˌjon]; alternatively spelled Gefion, or Gefjun [ˈɡevjon], pronounced without secondary syllable stress) is a...
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  • 51828 Ilanramon (category Gefion asteroids)
    Columbia disaster. Ilanramon is a member of the Gefion family (516), a large asteroid family named after 1272 Gefion. It orbits the Sun in the intermediate main-belt...
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  • Minor Planets, Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates...
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  • asteroids in the MPC database, MPCORB.DAT (139 MB)". International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. July 2024. "Critical Lists of Asteroids"...
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  • Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (category Discoverers of asteroids)
    the largest group of asteroids within the NEO category with nearly 8,000 members, and 69230 Hermes, famous for being a lost asteroid for more than half...
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  • Adeona family (category Asteroid groups and families)
    et al. (2003), "Orbital evolution of the Gefion and Adeona asteroid families: close encounters with massive asteroids and the Yarkovsky effect" (PDF), Icarus...
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  • 1271 Isergina (category Background asteroids)
    designation 1931 TN, is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 45 kilometers in diameter. It was...
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  • S2CID 250136009. Nörz, Dominik; Pfefferle, Susanne; Brehm, Thomas T.; Franke, Gefion; Grewe, Ilka; Knobling, Birte; Aepfelbacher, Martin; Huber, Samuel; Klupp...
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