181 Eucharis is a large slowly rotating main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomer Pablo Cottenot on February 2 1878 from Marseille Observatory. It was his only asteroid discovery. This object was named after Eucharis a Greek nymph.In the Tholen classification system it is categorized as a stony S-type asteroid while the Bus asteroid taxonomy system lists it as an Xk asteroid.
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