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605 Juvisia
Juvisia
is
a minor
planet orbiting
the Sun
that was discovered
27 August
1906
in
Heidelberg
by
German
astronomer
Max Wolf
. It was named after the commune
Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
, where French astronomer
Camille Flammarion
had his
observatory
.
Photometric
observations
at the
Palmer Divide Observatory
in
Colorado Springs, Colorado
,
in 1999
were used to
build
a
light curve
for this object. The
asteroid
displayed
a
rotation period
of 15.93 ± 0.
02
hours
and a
brightness
variation
of 0.25 ± 0.01 in
magnitude
.