492 Gismonda

Gismonda (minor planet designation: 492 Gismonda) is a main belt asteroid discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf in 1902. Gismonda is named after the daughter of Tancred, prince of Salerno, from Giovanni Boccaccio's work, The Decameron. It is orbiting 3.1136 AU from the Sun with a period of 2006.7 days and an orbital eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.18. The orbital plane is inclined at an angle of 1.6° to the plane of the ecliptic.

This asteroid is a member of the Themis collisional family, which is one of the largest such groups in the belt. It has an estimated diameter of $0.08$. The spectrum suggests the surface is covered with a fine grained silicate mantle. Photometric observations of Gismonda made in 1902 produce a light curve displaying a rotation period of $25.845 km$ with a brightness variation of $50.3 km$ in magnitude