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Minor Planet 5 Astraea, Mau_Bard

Minor Planet 5 Astraea

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This movie represents the asteroid 5 Astraea motion between 25 Feb 2024 20:15 and 26 Feb 2024 02:11 UT, as it appeared in a highly magnified portion of the 300 s sub-exposures taken to create the picture here.

Astraea
With the minor planet designation "5 Astraea", it is located in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, with an average (it is not spheric) diameter of 119 km. It orbits the Sun in 4.13 yr with an orbital semi-major axis of 2.57 AU. Astraea was the fifth asteroid discovered, on 8 December 1845, by Karl Ludwig Hencke and named as a Greek goddess of justice named after the stars.

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