650 Amalasuntha [SEP] discoverer or inventor
650 Amalasuntha
650 Amalasuntha is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer August Kopff on October 4, 1907, at Heidelberg. Given a provisional designation of 1907 AM, it was named after Amalasuntha, the queen of the Ostrogoths from 526 to 534 AD.
Photometric observations of this asteroid during 2007 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico, were used to create a light curve plot. This showed a rotation period of 16.582 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.44 ±
further evidence of the pro-Roman circle that Amalasuntha surrounded herself with.
Fiction.
The life of Amalasuntha was made the subject of a tragedy, the first play written by the young Carlo Goldoni and presented at Milan in 1733.
Legacy.
Asteroid 650 Amalasuntha is named in her honour.
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