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| Orbital characteristics | |
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| Orbit type | Main belt, Mars-crosser asteroid |
| Semimajor axis | 2.381 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.302 |
| Orbital period | 3.67 y |
| Inclination | 24.2° |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Diameter | 35.82 km |
| Mass | ? kg |
| Density | ? g/cm³ |
| Rotation period | 9.46 h |
| Spectral class | S |
| History | |
| Discoverer | M. F. Wolf, 1891 |
323 Brucia was the first asteroid to be discovered by the use of astrophotography. It was also the first of over 200 asteroids discovered by Max Wolf, a pioneer in that method of finding astronomical objects. Discovered in 1891, it was named in honour of Catherine Wolfe Bruce, a noted patroness of the science of astronomy. It happens to be a Mars-crosser asteroid.
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