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Lutetia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (563 words) |
 | Lutetia (sometimes Lutetia Parisiorum or Lucotecia, in French Lutèce) was a town in pre-Roman and Roman Gaul. |
| Lutetia was founded at the point where the Bièvre stream reaches the river Seine, both on the left bank of the Seine and on an island across from the confluence (modern-day Quartier Latin and Île de la Cité, respectively), in the centre of modern Paris. |
| There is also an asteroid named 21 Lutetia; and the element lutetium was named after the city, in honour of its discovery in a Paris laboratory. |
| 21 Lutetia - definition of 21 Lutetia in Encyclopedia (166 words) |
| 21 Lutetia ("loo TET ee a") is a large Main belt asteroid, about 100 kilometers in diameter. |
| It will be a rather important flyby, since Lutetia is not only large but also the first metallic M-type asteroid to be visited by a spacecraft. |
| There are two reported stellar occultations by Lutetia: from Malta (1997) and Australia (2003). |
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