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201 Penelope
Orbital characteristics 1 (ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html)
Orbit type  ?
Semimajor axis  ? AU
Perihelion distance  ? AU
Aphelion distance  ? AU
Orbital period  ? years
Inclination  ?°
Eccentricity  ?
Physical characteristics 1 (ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html)
Diameter  ? km
Rotation period 3 (http://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/lc.html)  ? hours
Spectral class  ?
Abs. magnitude  ?
Albedo 4 (http://dorothy.as.arizona.edu/DSN/IRAS/index_iras.html)  ?
History 2 (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.html)
Discoverer J. Palisa, 1879


201 Penelope is an asteroid that was disovered on August 7, 1879 by Johann Palisa. It was Palisa's 17th discovery. It is named after Penelope, the wife of Odysseus in Homer's The Odyssey.

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