Discovered by C. H. F. Peters Minor planet category Main belt | Discovery date 20 February 1876 Observation arc 118.30 yr (43209 d) | |
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Aphelion 2.90877 AU (435.146 Gm) Perihelion 2.54727 AU (381.066 Gm) | ||
160 Una is a fairly large and dark, primitive Main belt asteroid that was discovered by German-American astronomer C. H. F. Peters on February 20, 1876, in Clinton, New York. It is named after a character in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590).
In the Tholen classification system it is categorized as a CX-type, while the Bus asteroid taxonomy system lists it as an Xk asteroid. Photometric observations of this asteroid made at the Torino Observatory in Italy during 1990–1991 were used to determine a synodic rotation period of 5.61 ± 0.01 hours.
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