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{{Short description|Main-belt asteroid}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox planet
| minorplanet=yes
| background=#D6D6D6
| name=408 Fama
| discoverer=[[Max Wolf]]
| discovered=13 October 1895
| mpc_name=(408) Fama
| pronounced={{IPAc-en|'|f|eɪ|m|ə}}<ref>Noah Webster (1884) ''A Practical Dictionary of the English Language''</ref>
| alt_names=1895 CD
| mp_category=[[Asteroid belt|Main belt]]
| epoch=31 July 2016 ([[Julian day|JD]] 2457600.5)
| semimajor={{Convert|3.1696|AU|Gm|abbr=on}}
| perihelion={{Convert|2.71757|AU|Gm|abbr=on}}
| aphelion={{Convert|3.6216|AU|Gm|abbr=on|lk=on}}
| eccentricity=0.14261
| period=5.64 [[Julian year (astronomy)|yr]] (2061.1 [[Julian year (astronomy)|d]])
| inclination=9.0794°
| asc_node=297.250°
| arg_peri=108.505°
| mean_anomaly=148.91[[Degree (angle)|°]]
| dimensions={{val|40.81|2.1|ul=km}}
| mass=
| density=
| rotation={{Convert|202.1|h|d|abbr=on|lk=on}}<ref name="jpldata"/><br />12.19 h<ref name="Shipley2008"/>
| spectral_type=
| abs_magnitude=9.3
| albedo={{val|0.1681|0.019}}
| mean_motion={{Deg2DMS|0.17466|sup=ms}} / day
| orbit_ref=<ref name="jpldata">{{Cite web |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=408;cad=1 |title=408 Fama (1895 CD) |work=[[JPL Small-Body Database]] |publisher=[[NASA]]/[[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] |access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref>
| observation_arc=109.59 yr (40029 d)
| uncertainty=0
}}
'''408 Fama''' is a typical [[Asteroid belt|main belt]] [[asteroid]] in orbit around the Sun. It was discovered by German astronomer [[Max Wolf]] on 13 October 1895 in [[Heidelberg]].
[[Photometry (astronomy)|Photometric]] observations at the Oakley Observatory in [[Terre Haute, Indiana]], during 2007 were used to build a [[light curve]] for this asteroid. The asteroid displayed a [[rotation period]] of 12.19 ± 0.02 hours and a brightness variation of 0.15 ± 0.03 in [[Magnitude (astronomy)|magnitude]].<ref name="Shipley2008"/>
==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Shipley2008">{{Citation
|first1          = Heath
|last1           = Shipley
|first2          = Alex
|last2           = Dillard
|first3          = Jordan
|last3           = Kendall
|first4          = Matthew
|last4           = Reichert
|first5          = Jason
|last5           = Sauppe
|first6          = Nelson
|last6           = Shaffer
|first7          = Thomas
|last7           = Kleeman
|first8          = Richard
|last8           = Ditteon
|display-authors = 1
|title           = Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Palmer Divide Observatory: September 2007
|work            = The Minor Planet Bulletin
|volume          = 35
|issue           = 3
|pages           = 99–101
|date            = September 2008
|url             = http://www.minorplanet.info/MPB/MPB_35-3.pdf
|access-date      = 2013-03-23
|postscript      = .
|bibcode         = 2008MPBu...35...99S
|url-status         = dead
|archive-url      = https://web.archive.org/web/20130602215656/http://www.minorplanet.info/MPB/MPB_35-3.pdf
|archive-date     = 2013-06-02
}}</ref>
}} <!-- end of reflist -->
==External links==
* {{AstDys|408}}
* {{JPL small body}}
{{Minor planets navigator |407 Arachne |number=408 |409 Aspasia}}
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[[Category:Background asteroids]]
[[Category:Discoveries by Max Wolf|Fama]]
[[Category:Named minor planets|Fama]]
[[Category:Slow rotating minor planets]]
[[Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 1895|18951013]]
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