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415 Palatia
Palatia
is a large
main belt asteroid
that was
discovered
by
German
astronomer
Max Wolf
on
7 February
1896
in
Heidelberg
.
10µ
radiometric
data
collected
from
Kitt Peak
in
1975
gave an
overly
large
diameter
estimate
of 93
km
. It has a very
low
radiometric albedo of 0.026 and the
spectrum
suggests
a
metal-rich
enstatite
composition
.