(55) Pandora

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(55 ) Pandora is an asteroid of the main belt, which was to Pandora, a figure of Greek mythology, named.

Pandora was discovered on September 10, 1858 by GM Searle. It has an average diameter of 67 km and rotates in about 4 h 48 min around its own axis. Its surface has a high geometric albedo of about 0.30, and the absolute magnitude is 7.8 mag. Pandora is an M-type asteroid.

A Saturn - Moon also named Pandora, see Pandora ( moon).

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