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1453 Fennia (provisional designation: 1938 ED1) is an inner main belt asteroid. It was discovered on March 8 1938 by the Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Iso-Heikkilä Observatory in Turku Finland. The asteroid’s name is the Latin word for Finland.In 2007 a team of astronomers made photometric observations of Fennia and discovered that it is orbited by a moon. The moon is at least a quarter the size of Fennia itself and has an orbital period of approximately 23 hours.