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165 Loreley is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on August 9 1876 in Clinton New York and named after the Lorelei a figure in German folklore.In the late 1990s a network of astronomers worldwide gathered light curve data that was ultimately used to derive the spin states and shape models of 10 new asteroids including (165) Loreley.

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apoapsis (km)
5.06389e+11
orbital period (μ)
477792.0
periapsis (km)
4.29346e+11
absolute magnitude
7.76
albedo
0.078
discovery date
1876-08-09
discoverer
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
rotation period (s)
26016.0

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