66 Maja

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Discovered by Horace Parnell Tuttle Named after Maia Aphelion 464.253 Gm (3.103 AU) Discovered 9 April 1861 Orbits Sun Discoverer Horace Parnell Tuttle		Discovery date April 9, 1861 Minor planet category Main belt Perihelion 327.082 Gm (2.186 AU) Rotation period 9.7 hours Spectral type C-type asteroid

Discovery site Harvard College Observatory, Sears Tower – Harvard Observatory Similar Horace Parnell Tuttle discoveries, Other celestial objects

66 Maja /ˈmaɪ.ə/ is a dark, quite large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Horace Tuttle on April 9, 1861, and named after Maia, one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology.

Maja has been studied by radar.

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66 Maja Wikipedia

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