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Parthenope
Asteroid 11
Although it is one of the most massive
asteroids
, with a
diameter
of more than 150km, Parthenope is quite invisible to the naked eye. It circles the
Sun
at a little under 2½
AU
, a journey it takes nearly four years to complete.
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