170 Maria

{| table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="right" style="margin-left: 1em" |+ 170 Maria |- ! bgcolor="#ffc0c0" colspan="2" | Orbital characteristics ^{[ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html 1]} |- |Orbit type || Asteroid belt (Maria family) |- |Semimajor axis || 2.553 Astronomical Unit |- |Perihelion distance || 2.388 Astronomical Unit |- |Aphelion distance || 2.718 Astronomical Unit |- |Orbital period || 4.08 Year |- |Inclination || 14.40° |- |Eccentricity (orbit) || 0.065 |- ! bgcolor="#ffc0c0" colspan="2" | Physical characteristics ^{[ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html 1]} |- |Diameter || 44.3 Kilometre |- |Rotation period || 13.14 Hour |- |Spectral class || S-type asteroid |- |Absolute magnitude || 9.39 |- |Albedo ^{[http://dorothy.as.arizona.edu/DSN/IRAS/index_iras.html 4]} || 0.158 |- ! bgcolor="#ffc0c0" colspan="2" | History ^{[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.html 2]} |- |Discoverer || Henri Joseph Perrotin, 1877 |} 170 Maria is a bright-coloured Asteroid belt asteroid. It is probably a mixture of silicate rocks and metallic iron-nickel. It is the namesake of the Maria family. It was discovered by Henri Joseph Perrotin on January 10, 1877. Its orbit was computed by Antonio Abetti, and the asteroid was named after his sister, Maria. An occultation of a star by Maria was observed from Manitoba, Canada, on June 10, 1997.
''... | 169 Zelia | 170 Maria | 171 Ophelia | ...'' Maria asteroids

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