Pomona and Pomona Asteroid - New York City, NY
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N 40° 45.844 W 073° 58.410
18T E 586638 N 4513073
Pomona, the Goddess of Abundance is the focal point of the Pulitzer Fountain in New York City ...and also an asteroid.
Waymark Code: WMCJ0M
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 09/10/2011
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Pomona stands at the top tier of the 1916 Puklitzer Fountain in New York City's Grand Army Plaza. See (
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She is the Roman Goddess of Fruit Trees and abundance. Read more about her at (
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Wikipedia (
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"Australian amateur astronomer Jonathan Bradshaw recorded an unusual asteroid occultation by 32 Pomona on 16 August 2008. The expected maximum duration of the occultation was 7.1 secs; however, the video recording shows two separate occultations of equal depth each lasting 1.2 seconds, separated by 0.8 secs. Those durations convert to chord lengths at the asteroid of 15 km, 10 km, and 15 km – for a total length of 40 km. The IRAS diameter for Pomona is 86.3 km. The most likely explanation for this observation is that the asteroid is either binary (including a contact binary), or is a unitary asteroid with a significant concave region on its surface."