34 Circe (/ˈsɜrsiː/ SUR-see) is a large very dark main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by French astronomer J. Chacornac on April 6 1855 and named after Circe a goddess in Greek mythology.Photometric observations of this asteroid made during 2007 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces New Mexico gave an asymmetrical bimodal light curve with a period of 12.176 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.17 ± 0.02 in magnitude.
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