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255 Oppavia is a sizeable Main belt asteroid. It classified as a dark P-type asteroid.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on March 31 1886 in Vienna and was named after Opava town in the Czech Republic (then part of Austria-Hungary) where Palisa was born.Oppavia was long thought to be a member of the now defunct Ceres asteroid family but was found to be an unrelated interloper on the basis of its non-matching spectral type.

apoapsis (km)
4.43748e+11
average speed (km/s)
64728.0
orbital period (μ)
1.43477e+08
periapsis (km)
3.77374e+11
absolute magnitude
10.39
albedo
0.0374
discovery date
1886-03-31
discoverer
Johann Palisa
epoch
30 January 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
former name
A904 EC A924 TA, 1938 VC 1938 XC, 1945 GD 1951 SG

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