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116 Sirona is a somewhat large and bright-colored main-belt asteroid that was discovered by the German-American astronomer C. H. F. Peters on September 8 1871 and named after Sirona the Celtic goddess of healing.Photometric observations of this asteroid gave a light curve with a period of 12.028 hours and a brightness variation of 0.42 in magnitude. It has the spectrum of an S-type asteroid.

average speed (km/s)
64116.0
mass (kg)
3900.0
orbital period (μ)
1.4543e+08
periapsis (km)
3.57318e+11
temperature (K)
167.0
absolute magnitude
7.82
discovery date
1871-09-08
discoverer
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
epoch
December 31 2006 (JD 2454100.5)
escape velocity (kmh)
136.44
rotation period (s)
43300.8

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