1580 Betulia (provisional designation: 1950 KA) is an Amor asteroid discovered on May 22 1950 by Ernest Leonard Johnson at the Union Observatory Johannesburg South Africa. Betulia’s shape has been accurately determined: at its widest point the asteroid is 6.59 ± .66 km wide; however its effective diameter is 5.39± .54 km.The name honours Betulia Toro wife of the astronomer Samuel Herrick. Herrick had studied the asteroid’s orbit and requested the name along with that of 1685 Toro.
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