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230 Athamantis is a fairly large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by the German-Austrian astronomer K. de Ball on September 3 1882 in Bothkamp. It was his only asteroid discovery. The asteroid was named after Athamantis daughter of Athamas the mythical Greek king of Orchomenus.Photometric observations of this asteroid gave a light curve with a period of 23.99 hours and a brightness variation of more than 0.20 in magnitude. It has the spectrum of an S-type asteroid.

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apoapsis (km)
3.78299e+11
average speed (km/s)
69480.0
orbital period (μ)
1.16018e+08
periapsis (km)
3.34395e+11
absolute magnitude
7.35
albedo
0.181
discovery date
1882-09-03
discoverer
Leo Anton Karl de Ball
epoch
30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
former name
1949 WG
rotation period (s)
86364.0

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