Pallas

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5252.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5252. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar System, Asteroids

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The second asteroid to be discovered, by Wilhelm Olbers in 1802, and so designated (2) Pallas. It is also the second largest asteroid, irregular in shape with an average diameter of 525 km. It orbits the Sun in the main asteroid belt at a mean distance of 2.77 AU (415 million km) in a period of 4.61 years; the orbital inclination is 35°, high for a main-belt asteroid, and the eccentricity 0.23. P...

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