74 Galatea
Asteroid
Galatea is a large C-type main-belt asteroid. Its carbonaceous surface is very dark in color with an albedo of just 0.034. Galatea was found by the prolific comet discoverer Ernst Tempel on August 29, 1862, in Marseilles, France. It was his third... Wikipedia
Discoverer: Wilhelm Tempel
Discovered: August 29, 1862
Gravity: 0.0332 m/s²
Orbital period: 1,692 days
Absolute magnitude: 8.66
Mean density: 6.66 ± 5.94 g/cm3
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