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67 Asia

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Main-belt asteroid

67 Asia is a largemain belt asteroid. It was discovered by English astronomerN. R. Pogson on April 17, 1861, from theMadras Observatory. Pogson chose the name to refer both toAsia, a figure inGreek mythology, and to thecontinent of Asia, because the asteroid was the first to be discovered from that continent.^[4]

This object is orbiting theSun with aperiod of 3.77 years, asemimajor axis of2.421 AU, and aneccentricity of 0.185. It has a 2:1commensurability withMars, having an orbital period double that of the planet.^[5] Theorbital plane lies at an inclination of 6.0° to theplane of the ecliptic. This is a stonyS-type asteroid with a cross-sectional size of 61 km,^[2]Photometry from the Oakley Observatory during 2006 produced alightcurve that indicated asidereal rotation period of15.90±0.02 with anamplitude of0.26±0.04 in magnitude.^[6]

^Noah Webster (1884)A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
^^a ^b ^c ^dCarry, B. (December 2012), "Density of asteroids",Planetary and Space Science, vol. 73, pp. 98–118,arXiv:1203.4336,Bibcode:2012P&SS...73...98C,doi:10.1016/j.pss.2012.03.009. See Table 1.
^Asteroid Data Sets Archived 2009-12-17 at theWayback Machine
^Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003),Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 22,ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3
^Plastino, A. R.; Vucetich, H. (August 1992), "Resonant asteroids and the equivalence principle",Astronomy and Astrophysics,262 (1):321–325,Bibcode:1992A&A...262..321P
^Ditteon, Richard; Hawkins, Scot (September 2007), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Observatory – October–November 2006",The Minor Planet Bulletin,34 (3):59–64,Bibcode:2007MPBu...34...59D,ISSN 1052-8091.

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