167 Urda is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German-American astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters on August 28 1876 in Clinton New York and named after Urd one of the Norns in Norse mythology. In 1905 Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa showed that the asteroid varied in brightness.Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs Colorado during 2007–8 gave a light curve with a period of 13.06133 ± 0.00002 hours.
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