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224 Oceana

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Main-belt asteroid

224 Oceana is anasteroid from theasteroid belt. It was discovered by Austrian astronomerJohann Palisa on 30 March 1882, inVienna. It was named after thePacific Ocean. Based upon its spectrum, it is classified as anM-type asteroid, but is not metallic.

Alight curve generated fromphotometric observations of this asteroid atPulkovo Observatory show a rotation period of 9.401 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.09 ± 0.01 inmagnitude.^[4]

224 Oceana was one of five minor planets included in the 1993 study,Transition Comets -- UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids, which was research involving amateur astronomers who were permitted to make use of the Hubble Space Telescope.

^"Oceana".Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription orparticipating institution membership required.)
^Noah Webster (1884)A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
^^a ^b"224 Oceana".JPL Small-Body Database.NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived fromthe original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved12 May 2016.
^^a ^bPilcher, Frederick (October 2011), "Rotation Period Determinations for 11 Parthenope, 38 Leda, 111 Ate 194 Prokne, 217 Eudora, and 224 Oceana",The Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 183–185,Bibcode:2011MPBu...38..183P.

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