Minor planet category Main belt Aphelion 2.8529 AU (426.79 Gm) Absolute magnitude 10.7 Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Discovery date 4 February 1888 Observation arc 97.35 yr (35557 d) Discovered 4 February 1888 Orbits Sun | |
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Perihelion 2.70319 AU (404.391 Gm) Similar 441 Bathilde, 302 Clarissa, 317 Roxane, 360 Carlova, 266 Aline | ||
272 Antonia is a main belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomer Auguste Charlois on February 4, 1888 in Nice.
Photometric observations of this asteroid made during 2008 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico gave a light curve with a short rotation period of 3.8548 ± 0.0001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.43 ± 0.04 in magnitude.
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