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183 Istria
Orbital characteristics 1 (ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html)
Orbit type Main belt
Semimajor axis 2.797 AU
Perihelion distance 1.824 AU
Aphelion distance 3.769 AU
Orbital period 4.68 years
Inclination 26.41°
Eccentricity 0.348
Physical characteristics 1 (ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html)
Diameter 35.4 km
Rotation period 11.77 hours
Spectral class 5 (http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/parallax/phot/LCSUMPUB.TXT) S
Abs. magnitude 9.68
Albedo 4 (http://dorothy.as.arizona.edu/DSN/IRAS/index_iras.html) 0.189
History 2 (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.html)
Discoverer J. Palisa, 1878


183 Istria is a stony main belt asteroid.


It was discovered by J. Palisa on February 8, 1878 and named after the Istrian peninsula, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.



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Istria information - Search.com (1331 words)
Istria (Croatian and Slovenian Istra) is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea.
The region lies mostly in Istria county of western Croatia.
According to the Austrian census results, out of 404,309 inhabitants of Istria, 168,116 (41.6%) spoke Croatian, 147,416 (36.5%) spoke Italian, 55,365 (13.7%) spoke Slovenian, 13,279 (3.3%) spoke German, 882 (0.2%) spoke Romanian, 2,116 (0.5%) spoke other languages and 17,135 (4.2%) were non-citizens, which had not been asked for their language of communication.
Hotel Istria (1494 words)
The peninsula lies mostly in northwestern Croatia, in Istria county.
Istria county - ''Istarska županija'' / ''Regione istriana'' is the westernmost county of Croatia which includes the biggest part of the Istrian peninsula (2820 out of 3160 km²;).
White Istria is around the mountain peaks, Grey Istria is the fertile inner lands while Red Istria is blood-red painted lands of terra rossa or " crljenica" near the coastline.
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