62 Erato

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name=62 Erato
discoverer=Oskar Lesser and Wilhelm Julius Foerster
discovered=September 14, 1860
alt_names=
mp_category=Main belt
epoch=December 31, 2006 (JD 2454100.5)
semimajor=467.092 Gm (3.122 AU)
perihelion=383.868 Gm (2.566 AU)
aphelion=550.315 Gm (3.679 AU)
eccentricity=0.178
period=2015.178 d (5.52 a)
inclination=2.223°
asc_node=125.738°
arg_peri=273.285°
mean_anomaly=161.828°
avg_speed=16.72 km/s
dimensions=95.4 km
mass=9.1e|17 kg
density=? g/cm³
surface_grav=0.0267 m/s²
escape_velocity=0.0504 km/s
rotation=? d
spectral_type=C?
abs_magnitude=8.76
albedo=0.061 [ [http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/albedo.html Asteroid Data Sets ] ]
single_temperature=~158 K

62 Erato (pronEng|ɨˈreɪtoʊ "e-ray'-toh") is a large and dark, probably carbonaceous main belt asteroid. It is a member of the Themis asteroid family. Erato is the first asteroid to have been credited with co-discoverers, Oskar Lesser and Wilhelm Forster, who discovered it on September 14, 1860. It was their first and only asteroid discovery. It is named after Erato, the Muse of lyric poetry in Greek mythology.

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