437 Rhodia

Minor Planet | name=437 Rhodia
discoverer=Auguste Charlois
discovery_date=July 16, 1898
designations=1898 DP
category=Main belt
epoch=30 January, 2005 (JD 2453400.5)
semimajor=356.929 Gm (2.386 AU)
perihelion=268.643 Gm (1.796 AU)
aphelion=445.215 Gm (2.976 AU)
eccentricity=0.247
period=1346.094 d (3.69 a)
inclination=7.358°
asc_node=263.4°
arg_peri=61.486°
mean_anomaly=312.812°
speed=19.28 km/s
dimensions=13.1 km
mass="unknown"
density="unknown"
gravity="unknown"
escape_velocity="unknown"
rotation="unknown"
spectral_class="unknown"
abs_mag=10.41
albedo=0.70cite web
date=2008-05-13 last obs
title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 437 Rhodia (1898 DP)
url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=437
accessdate=2008-06-16] cite web
date=28 June 2003
title=Asteroid albedos: graphs of data
publisher=Johnston's Archive
author=Wm. Robert Johnston
url=http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/astalbedo.html
accessdate=2008-06-16]
temperature="unknown"

437 Rhodia is a Main belt asteroid. It has the highest albedo of any main belt asteroid.

It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on July 16, 1898 in Nice.

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