442 Eichsfeldia is a large main belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomers Max Wolf and A. Schwassmann on February 15 1899 in Heidelberg. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material. Although Eichsfeldia has an orbit similar to the Vesta family asteroids it was found to be an unrelated interloper on the basis of its non-matching spectral type.
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