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1052 Belgica is an asteroid. It was discovered by Eugène Joseph Delporte on November 15 1925. Its provisional designation was 1925 VD. It was named after Belgium. In 2012 it was discovered that this is a binary system with an orbital period of 47.26 ± 0.02 hours. The primary has a rotation period of 2.7097 ± 0.0001 hours and may be nearly spherical.