359 Georgia is a typical Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an X-type asteroid.

It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 10 1893 in Nice. It was named by the daughter of Felix Klein at a meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in 1902 held at the Georg August University of Göttingen, where Klein was a professor. It was named after the University's founder King George II of Great Britain, Elector of Hanover.

External links

  • , Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2009)
  • , query form ( 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)
  • , Google books
  • – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
  • – Minor Planet Center
  • at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site · · · ·
  • at the JPL Small-Body Database · · · · ·