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3318 Blixen is a main belt asteroid discovered by Poul Jensen and Karl Augustesen in 1985. It measures 23.5 km in diameter and is named after Karen Blixen the Danish novelist.Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2006 show a rotation period of 6.456 ± 0.003 hours with a brightness variation of 0.20 ± 0.02 magnitude.