331 Etheridgea is a large main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 1 April 1892 in Nice. The meaning of the name is unknown. This asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of with a period of and an eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.10. The orbital plane is tilted at an angle of 6.05° to the plane of the ecliptic.
Analysis of the asteroid light curve generated from photometric data collected in 2015 provided a rotation period of . This result is completely different from the previous rotation period estimates. It is a low albedo, carbonaceous C-type asteroid and spans a girth of .
It may have been named for the geologist and paleontologist Robert Etheridge (1819–1903).Room, A. (1988). Dictionary of Astronomical Names. United Kingdom: Routledge.
References
External links , Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (1999) Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info ) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center