437 Rhodia
Rhodia (minor planet designation: 437 Rhodia) is a Main belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomer Auguste Charlois on 16 July 1898 in Nice. It was named after one of the Oceanid nymphs of Greek mythology. This asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of  with a period of  and an eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.25. The orbital plane is tilted at an angle of 7.3° to the plane of the ecliptic. 437 Rhodia was originally a proposed fly-by target of interest for the Rosetta mission. Analysis of the bimodal light curve generated using photometric data show a lengthy rotation period of  with a brightness variation of  in magnitude. It also appears to be tumbling. 437 Rhodia is classified as an E-type asteroid with a diameter of approximately . This object has the highest albedo in the IRAS dataset, with a value of . References

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Background asteroids
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Slow rotating minor planets
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