765 Mattiaca is a minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt. Photometric observations made in 2011–2012 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico produced an irregular light curve and a period of 3.4640 ± 0.0001 hours with a brightness variation of 0.09 ± 0.01 in magnitude.[3] Mattiacum was the Latin name for the city of Wiesbaden, Germany, birthplace of the discoverer.[4]
^'Mattiacum' in Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
765Mattiaca is a minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt. Photometric observations made in 2011–2012 at the Organ Mesa Observatory...
(1891–1962), astronomer, discoverer of asteroid 717 Wisibada and asteroid 765Mattiaca, both named in honour of the city of Wiesbaden Wilhelm Kempf (1906–1982)...
Determinations for 46 Hestia, 223 Rosa, 225 Henrietta, 266 Aline, 750 Oskar, and 765Mattiaca", The Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 171–173, Bibcode:2012MPBu...
Determinations for 46 Hestia, 223 Rosa, 225 Henrietta, 266 Aline, 750 Oskar, and 765Mattiaca", The Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 171–173, Bibcode:2012MPBu...
Determinations for 46 Hestia, 223 Rosa, 225 Henrietta, 266 Aline, 750 Oskar, and 765Mattiaca", The Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 171–173, Bibcode:2012MPBu...
the city of Wiesbaden in Hesse, Germany. Kaiser also named asteroid 765Mattiaca after Wiesbaden using the city's Latin name, Aquae Mattiacorum, which...