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180 Garumna is a main belt asteroid that was discovered by the French astronomer Henri Joseph Perrotin on January 29 1878. Its name comes from the ancient Latin name for the Garonne River in France. In the Tholen classification system it is categorized as a stony S-type asteroid while the Bus asteroid taxonomy system lists it with the Sr sub-type.The rotation period of this asteroid is very nearly synchronized with the rotation of the Earth.