167 Urda [SEP] discoverer or inventor
167 Urda
Urda (minor planet designation: 167 Urda) is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German-American astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters on August 28, 1876, in Clinton, New York, and named after Urd, one of the Norns in Norse mythology. In 1905, Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa showed that the asteroid varied in brightness.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 2007–8 gave a light curve with a period of 13.06133 ± 0.00002
Urda
Urda may refer to:
- Urd (Norse mythology), of which Urda is an alternative spelling
- 167 Urda, an asteroid
- Urda cheese, a Romanian and Macedonian cheese
- Urda (anime), an anime about time travel and Nazis
- Urda (journal), a Norwegian antiquities and history journal
- Urda, Toledo, a Spanish municipality
- Urda Arneberg (1929–2000), Norwegian actress