790 Pretoria [SEP] discoverer or inventor
790 Pretoria
790 Pretoria is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by English astronomer Harry Edwin Wood on January 16, 1912. It is a member of the Cybele group located beyond the core of the main belt (see Minor planet groups).
10µ radiometric data collected from Kitt Peak in 1975 gave a diameter estimate of 175 km. In the present day it is estimated to be in diameter. Photometric measurements of the asteroid made in 2005 at the Palmer Divide Observatory showed a light curve with a
Pretoria (disambiguation)
Pretoria may refer to:
Places.
- Pretoria, a city in South Africa
- Pretoria Pit Disaster, a mining disaster at Westhoughton, Lancashire, UK
- 790 Pretoria, an asteroid
Ships.
- "Pretoria" (ship), a privately owned schooner-barge, one of the largest wooden ships ever constructed, launched in 1900 from West Bay, Michigan, US
- USS "Pretoria" (1897), a United States Navy troop transport commissioned in