(334) Chicago

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(334 ) Chicago is one of the main asteroid belt asteroid that was discovered on August 23, 1892 by Max F. Wolf at the Observatory of Heidelberg. It is named after the North American metropolitan Chicago.

Chicago moves at a distance of 3.8 ( perihelion ) to 4.0 ( aphelion ) astronomical units in 7.7 years of the sun. The orbit is inclined 4.6 ° to the ecliptic, the orbital eccentricity is 0.03.

With a diameter of 156 kilometers, Chicago is one of the larger asteroids of the main belt. Chicago is counted for Hilda family.

Chicago was the first asteroid, in which the then- unwritten law was broken that asteroids always given female names.

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