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545 Messalina

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Main-belt asteroid

545 Messalina is aminor planet, specifically anasteroid orbiting primarily in theasteroid belt. It was discovered on 3 October 1904 byPaul Götz (provisional name 1904 OY), atHeidelberg. It is named afterValeria Messalina, the third wife of Roman EmperorClaudius.^[4]^[5]^[6]

^"Messalina".Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription orparticipating institution membership required.)
^Noah Webster (1884)A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
^"545 Messalina (1904 OY)".JPL Small-Body Database.NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved5 May 2016.
^Lutz D. Schmadel (2013).Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (Third ed.). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 89.ISBN 978-3-662-06615-7.
^Popular Astronomy. Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College. 1906. p. 432.
^The Athenaeum. British Periodicals Limited. 1906. p. 705.

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