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32 Pomona is a stony main-belt asteroid that is 81 km across. It was discovered by German-French astronomer Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt on October 26 1854 and is named after Pōmōna the Roman goddess of fruit trees.Photometric observations of this asteroid gave a light curve with a synodic rotation period of 9.448 hours.

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average speed (km/s)
66528.0
orbital period (μ)
1.3138e+08
periapsis (km)
3.54967e+11
absolute magnitude
7.56
albedo
0.2564
discovery date
1854-10-26
discoverer
Hermann Goldschmidt
epoch
December 31 2006 (JD 2454100.5)
former name
A899 QA; A911 KF;, 1945 RB; 1949 SH;, 1950 YD
rotation period (s)
34015.7

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