(176) Iduna

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(176 ) Iduna is an asteroid of the outer main asteroid belt, which was discovered on 14 October 1877 by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters in New York. It was named after celestial bodies Idun, the goddess of youth from Norse mythology.

Iduna moves at a distance of 2.7 ( perihelion ) to 3.7 ( aphelion ) astronomical units in 5.7 years of the sun. The web is highly inclined at 22.5 ° to the ecliptic, the orbital eccentricity is 0.16. Iduna has a diameter of approximately 120 kilometers. It has a dark carbonaceous surface with an albedo of 0.08. In around 11.3 hours to rotate around its own axis.

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