Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 148 Gallia (as Greek Γαλλία) is a large main-belt asteroid that is named after the Latin name for France: Gaul. Gallia was discovered by the French brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on August 7, 1875, but the credit for this discovery was given to Prosper. Based upon its spectrum, this is a GU-type asteroid in the Tholen classification taxonomy, while Bus and Binzel (2002) categorize it as an S-type asteroid.Photometric observations of this asteroid at the European Southern Observatory in 1977–78 gave a light curve with a period of 0.86098 ± 0.00030 days (20.6635 ± 0.0072 h) and a brightness variation of 0.32 in magnitude. A 2007 study at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado yielded a period of 20.666 ± 0.002 h with a magnitude variation of 0.21.This object is the namesake of a family of 22–113 asteroids that share similar spectral properties and orbital elements. Hence they may have arisen from the same collisional event. All members have a relatively high orbital inclination.. }
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- 148_Gallia abstract "148 Gallia (as Greek Γαλλία) is a large main-belt asteroid that is named after the Latin name for France: Gaul. Gallia was discovered by the French brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on August 7, 1875, but the credit for this discovery was given to Prosper. Based upon its spectrum, this is a GU-type asteroid in the Tholen classification taxonomy, while Bus and Binzel (2002) categorize it as an S-type asteroid.Photometric observations of this asteroid at the European Southern Observatory in 1977–78 gave a light curve with a period of 0.86098 ± 0.00030 days (20.6635 ± 0.0072 h) and a brightness variation of 0.32 in magnitude. A 2007 study at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado yielded a period of 20.666 ± 0.002 h with a magnitude variation of 0.21.This object is the namesake of a family of 22–113 asteroids that share similar spectral properties and orbital elements. Hence they may have arisen from the same collisional event. All members have a relatively high orbital inclination.".