It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 11 June 1891 in Nice.[3] The name was suggested to Charlois by the amateur astronomer Arthur Mee of Cardiff, Wales, to commemorate Mee's wife, Claudia.[4]
311 Claudia is one of the Koronis family of asteroids. A group of astronomers, including Lucy D'Escoffier Crespo da Silva and Richard P. Binzel, used observations made between 1998 through 2000 to determine the spin-vector alignment of these asteroids. The collaborative work resulted in the creation of 61 new individual rotation lightcurves to augment previous published observations.[5]
References
^Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
^Schmadel Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (fifth edition), Springer, 2003. ISBN3-540-00238-3.
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Mee, Arthur B. P. (2 April 1910), "Astronomical Notes", Weekly Mail, p. 11, retrieved 25 August 2013
^Slivan, S. M., Binzel, R. P., Crespo da Silva, L. D., Kaasalainen, M., Lyndaker, M. M., Krco, M.: "Spin vectors in the Koronis family: comprehensive results from two independent analyses of 213 rotation lightcurves",Icarus, 162, 2003, pp. 285–307.
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