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242 Kriemhild is a main belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on September 22 1884 in Vienna and was named after Kriemhild a mythological Germanic princess by Moriz von Kuffner a Viennese industrialist and sponsor of astronomy.Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Oakley Observatory in Terre Haute Indiana during 2006 gave a light curve with a period of 4.558 ± 0.003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.15 ± 0.02 in magnitude.
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