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174 Phaedra is a sizable rocky main belt asteroid that was discovered by Canadian-American astronomer James Craig Watson on September 2 1877 and named after Phaedra the tragic lovelorn queen in Greek mythology.Lightcurve data obtained from Phaedra indicates a rather irregular or elongated body.Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Shadowbox Observatory in Carmel Indiana during 2009 gave a light curve with a period of 4.96 ± 0.01 hours.

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apoapsis (km)
4.89783e+11
orbital period (μ)
1.52423e+08
periapsis (km)
3.65468e+11
absolute magnitude
8.48
albedo
0.149
discovery date
1877-09-02
discoverer
James Craig Watson
rotation period (s)
20700.0

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