52 Europa is one of the larger asteroids in the asteroid belt having an average diameter of around 315 km. The body is not round but is shaped like a triaxial ellipsoid of approximately 380x330x250 km. It was discovered on February 4 1858 by Hermann Goldschmidt from his balcony in Paris. It is named after Europa one of Zeus’s conquests in Greek mythology a name it shares with Jupiter’s moon Europa.
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