138 Tolosa (to-loe’-za Latin Tolōsa) is a brightly coloured stony main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by French astronomer Henri Joseph Perrotin on May 19 1874 and named after the Latin name for Toulouse France.The spectrum of this asteroid rules out the presence of ordinary chondrites while leaning in favor of clinopyroxene phases. As of 2006 there are no known meteorites with compositions similar to the spectrum of 138 Tolosa.
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