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356 Liguria is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Auguste Charlois on January 21 1893 in Nice. It is one of seven of Charlois’s discoveries that was expressly named by the Astromomisches Rechen-Institut (Astronomical Calculation Institute) and was named for the Italian region of the same name.13-cm radar observations of this asteroid from the Arecibo Observatory between 1980 and 1985 were used to produce a diameter estimate of 155 km.

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