On April 15, 2005, UT Magdalena occulted a 10.7 mag star in the constellation Scutum for observers along a path across Australia.
Measurements made with the IRAS observatory give a diameter of 106.08 ± 0.25 km and a geometric albedo of 0.03 ± 0.01. By comparison, the MIPS photometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope gives a diameter of 105.32 ± 11.11 km and a geometric albedo of 0.03 ± 0.01.[4]
Alternative rock group The Pixies named one of their songs after the asteroid on their album Indie Cindy.[5]
References
^Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
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