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**146 Lucina**
Orbital characteristics ^{1 (ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html)}
Orbit type	Main belt
Semimajor axis	2.720 AU
Perihelion distance	2.541 AU
Aphelion distance	2.899 AU
Orbital period	4.49 years
Inclination	13.07�
Eccentricity	0.066
Physical characteristics ^{1 (ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html)}
Diameter	132.2 km
Rotation period	18.557 hours
Spectral class	C
Abs. magnitude	8.20
Albedo ^{4 (http://dorothy.as.arizona.edu/DSN/IRAS/index_iras.html)}	0.043
History ^{2 (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.html)}
Discoverer	A. Borrelly, 1875

146 Lucina is a main belt asteroid. It is large, dark and has a carbonaceous composition.

It was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on June 8, 1875 and named after Lucina, the Roman goddess of childbirth.

Two stellar occultations by Lucina have been observed so far, in 1982 and 1989. During the first event, a possible small satellite (6 km in diameter) was detected.

Further evidence for a satellite emerged in 2003, this time based on astrometric measurements. [1] (http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/asteroidmoonsq.html)

Categories: Main Belt asteroids

Results from FactBites:

Lucina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (139 words)
	In Roman mythology, Lucina was the goddess of childbirth.
	Later, Lucina was an epithet for Juno as ("she who brings children into light").
	The name was generally taken to have the sense of "she who brings children into the light" (Latin: lux "light"), but may actually have been derived from lucus ("grove") after a sacred grove of lotus trees on the Esquiline Hill associated with the goddess and tended by the Vestal virgins.

Person Page 146 (519 words)
	He was the son of Charles Joslyn Weller and Lucina Smith.
	Charles Elliot Weller appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Concord Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, in the household of his parents Charles and Lucina.
	Charles Elliot Weller appeared on the 1870 Federal Census of Ellenboro, Grant County, Wisconsin, in the household of his parents Charles and Lucina.

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