Focus On: (3811) Karma

Basics

Class: Asteroid
Location: Main belt, Karma family
Orbit length (approx): 4.14 years
Discovered: 13th October 1953, 22:19 UTC, Iso-Heikkilä Observatory, Turku, Finland, by Liisi Oterma
Events at time of discovery:

• October 12 – Birth of Les Dennis, British comedian and television presenter
• October 13 – Herman Wouk's play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial premièred at the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara, California (at Plymouth Theatre, New York, the previous day).
• October 14 – Birth of Greg Evigan, American actor
• – Birth of Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, actress, writer

Focus On: (10) Hygiea

Basics

Class: C-type asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 5.56 years
Discovered: 12th April 1849 (time unknown) from Naples, Italy, by Annibale de Gasparis
Events at time of discovery:

• 1849 – Global healthcare and pharmaceutical company Pfizer was founded in New York.
• January 23 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor.
• July 23 – The French scientist Hippolyte Fizeau measures the speed of light, with an instrument placed on the Earth.
• September 17 – Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.