Brittany is asteroid #51599 and also known as 2001 HR₂₄. Brittany’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.27 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.17, a period of revolution of 1 249 days, and an inclination of 7.7 degrees. Brittany was discovered by the American amateur astronomer Loren C. Ball at his Emerald Lane Observatory built on the roof of his house in Emerald Lane, Decatur, Alabama, USA.

Brittany is named after Brittany Johnson, who is the niece of Loren C. Ball, who discovered this asteroid. Representing nieces is the realm of the asteroid Zelia because that asteroid can’t mean anything else! So Brittany must mean something else. Besides the representation of persons named Brittany. Several renowned persons share the name Brittany Johnson, so searches for the biography of the niece of the asteroid discoverer are fruitless. The name Brittany originally is a place name for a part of France, in French called Bretagne. It is the western part of the historical region Armorica, after which the asteroid Armor is named. Brittany is also called Little Britain because the historical Celtic tribe of the Bretons consisted of immigrants from what is now Great Britain. The etymology of both place names is the same. The asteroid Brittany hence should hint to the peninsula in the northwest of France and to emigrants from Great Britain.