212 Medea is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Johann Palisa on February 6 1880 in Pola and was named after Medea a figure in Greek mythology.Photometric observations of this asteroid in 1987 gave an incomplete light curve with a period of 10.12 ± 0.06 hours and a brightness variation of 0.13 in magnitude. This object has a spectrum that matches a DCX: classification.
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