39 Laetitia /lɨˈtiːʃiə/ is a large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomer Jean Chacornac on February 8 1856 and named after Laetitia a minor Roman goddess of gaiety.Photometric observations of this asteroid gathered between 1968–74 were used to build a light curve that provided shape and rotation information. It has the general shape of an elongated triaxial ellipsoid with ratios between the lengths of the axes equal to 15:9:5.
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