178 Belisana is a rocky main belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on November 6 1877. It is named after the Celtic goddess Belisana.Photometric observations of this asteroid from multiple observatories during 2007 gave a light curve with a period of 12.321 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.10 ± 0.03 in magnitude. This is in agreement with a study performed in 1992.
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