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25 Phocaea is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by J. Chacornac at Marseille on April 6. 1853. It was his first asteroid discovery out of a total of six. It is named after Phocaea the Greek name of Foça in Turkey from whence came the founders of Marseille.Phocaea has been studied by radar. Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces New Mexico during 2010 gave a light curve with a period of 9.9341 ± 0.0002 hours.

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apoapsis (km)
4.50716e+11
average speed (km/s)
68076.0
orbital period (μ)
1.17326e+08
periapsis (km)
2.67314e+11
temperature (K)
173.0
absolute magnitude
7.83
albedo
0.231
discovery date
1853-04-06
discoverer
Jean Chacornac
epoch
June 14 2006 (JD 2453900.5)
escape velocity (kmh)
142.92
former name
1956 GC
rotation period (s)
35804.2

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