Discovery date 8 September 1871 Observation arc 143.31 yr (52345 d) Discovered 8 September 1871 Discovery site Litchfield Observatory | Minor planet category Main belt Aphelion 3.1616 AU (472.97 Gm) Named after Sirona | |
Perihelion 2.37322 AU (355.029 Gm) Discoverer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters Similar 167 Urda, 188 Menippe, 114 Kassandra, 196 Philomela, 135 Hertha | ||
116 Sirona is a somewhat large and bright-colored main-belt asteroid that was discovered by the German-American astronomer C. H. F. Peters on September 8, 1871, and named after Sirona, the Celtic goddess of healing.
Photometric observations of this asteroid gave a light curve with a period of 12.028 hours and a brightness variation of 0.42 in magnitude. It has the spectrum of an S-type asteroid.
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