Carolina (minor planet designation: 235 Carolina) is a sizeable Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on 28 November 1883 in Vienna, and was named after Caroline Island, now part of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean. This asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of with a period of and an eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.06. The orbital plane is tilted at an angle of 9.0° to the plane of the ecliptic. Photometric data collected during 2007 were used to construct a light curve that demonstrated a rotation period of with a brightness variation of in magnitude. It is a stony S-type asteroid. References External links The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database Minor Planet Discovery Circumstances Asteroid Lightcurve Data File Lightcurve plot of 235 Carolina, Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2007) 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 Background asteroids Carolina Carolina S-type asteroids (Tholen) 18831128