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122 Gerda is a fairly large outer main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German-American astronomer C. H. F. Peters on July 31 1872 and named after Gerðr the wife of the god Freyr in Norse mythology. Based upon its spectrum this is classified as an S-type asteroid.

apoapsis (km)
5.01593e+11
average speed (km/s)
59724.0
mass (kg)
5700.0
orbital period (μ)
1.82499e+08
periapsis (km)
4.62356e+11
temperature (K)
155.0
absolute magnitude
7.87
discovery date
1872-07-31
discoverer
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
epoch
December 31 2006 (JD 2454100.5)
escape velocity (kmh)
155.52
rotation period (s)
3.6

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