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72 Feronia, formally (72) Feronia, is a dark main-belt asteroid discovered on 29 May 1861 by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. It was named after Feronia, a Roman deity associated with fertility. Peters initially thought the object might be the already known asteroid 66 Maja, but later observations established it as a separate body. Light-curve studies estimate a rotation period of about 8.09 hours and have been used to produce a three-dimensional shape model.
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72 Feronia scores 4.05/10 (Poor) on Lunoo, making it rated in the Asteroid category.
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