60 Echo is a quite large main-belt S-type asteroid. It was discovered by James Ferguson of the United States Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. on September 14 1860. It was his third and final asteroid discovery. It is named after Echo a nymph in Greek mythology. James Ferguson had initially named it Titania not realizing it was already used for a satellite of Uranus.Echo has been studied by radar.
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