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197 Arete
Orbital characteristics 1 (ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html)
Orbit type Main belt
Semimajor axis 2.739 AU
Perihelion distance 2.294 AU
Aphelion distance 3.184 AU
Orbital period 4.53 years
Inclination 8.79�
Eccentricity 0.162
Physical characteristics 1 (ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html)
Diameter 29.2 km
Rotation period 3 (http://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/lc.html) 6.54 hours
Spectral class 5 (http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/parallax/phot/LCSUMPUB.TXT) S
Abs. magnitude 9.18
Albedo 4 (http://dorothy.as.arizona.edu/DSN/IRAS/index_iras.html) 0.442
History 2 (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.html)
Discoverer J. Palisa, 1879


197 Arete ("uh RETT ee") is a Main belt asteroid. It has a very bright surface, unusually bright even for a rocky S-type asteroid.


It was discovered by J. Palisa on May 21, 1879, and named after Arete, the mother of Nausicaa in Homer's The Odyssey.

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