813 Baumeia
813 Baumeia is a stony background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 28 November 1915, by German astronomer Max Wolf at the Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany. The common S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 10.5 hours and measures approximately in diameter. It was named for H. Baum, a German student of astronomy at Heidelberg who was killed in World War I.
Orbit and classification
Baumeia is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.2–2.3 AU once every 3 years and 4 months. Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.03 and an inclination of 6° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its first observation as at Heidelberg on 4 April 1907, more than 8 years prior to its official discovery observation.Naming
This minor planet was named im memory of H. Baum, a German astronomy student at Heidelberg University who was in World War I. The naming was published in the journal Astronomische Nachrichten in 1921. The was also mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955.Physical characteristics
Baumeia is a common, stony S-type asteroid in both the SMASS-I taxonomy by Xu, as well as in the taxonomic classification based on MOVIS near-infrared colors from the catalog of the VISTA Hemisphere Survey conducted with the VISTA telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile.Rotation period
In January 2019, a rotational lightcurve of Baumeia was obtained from photometric observations by European astronomers Bruno Christmann, Raoul Behrend, Anaël Wünsche, Marc Bretton, Rui Goncalves, Josep Bosch. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of hours with a brightness variation of magnitude.The result confirms and refines previous observations by French amateur astronomer René Roy in February 2003, which gave a period of hours with an amplitude of magnitude, by Jean-Gabriel Bosch at the French Collonges Observatory in February 2006, which gave an identical period of hours with an amplitude of magnitude, by James W. Brinsfield at the Via Capote Observatory in Australia in November 2008, which gave the first secured period of hours with an amplitude of magnitude.