Basics
Class: V-type asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 3.63 years
Discovered: 29th March 1807 (time unknown), from Bremen, Germany, by Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
Events at time of discovery:
- March 25 – The United Kingdom Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in most of the British Empire with effect from 1 May (slavery itself is abolished in British colonies in 1833).
- – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway in South Wales, at this time known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
- April 14 – African Institution holds its first meeting in London; it is intended to improve social conditions in Sierra Leone.