23 Thalia

id: 23-thalia-172-9615273
title: 23 Thalia
text: 23 Thalia is a large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by J. R. Hind on 15 December 1852, at the private observatory of W. Bishop, located in Hyde Park, London, England. Bishop named it after Thalia, the Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry in Greek mythology. It is categorized as an S-type asteroid consisting of mainly of iron- and magnesium-silicates. This the second most common type of asteroid in the main belt. Based on analysis of the light curve, the object has a sidereal rotation period
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description: Main-belt asteroid
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Thalia
date created: 2004-06-15T16:09:59Z
date modified: 2024-09-01T23:33:58Z
main entity: {"identifier":"Q148618","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148618"}
image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/23Thalia_%28Lightcurve_Inversion%29.png","width":1200,"height":450}
fields total: 13
integrity: 16

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