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2 Pallas Asteroid
Main Belt Asteroids Group of Asteroids
Outer Space Deep Space

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2 Pallas	Asteroid
Main Belt Asteroids	Group of Asteroids
Outer Space	Deep Space

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2 Pallas

2 Pallas, Main Belt Asteroids, Outer Space

2 Pallas

2 Pallas, Main Belt Asteroids, Outer Space

2 Pallas

2 Pallas, Main Belt Asteroids, Outer Space

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Asteroid

Mindat Locality ID:

339180

Long-form identifier:

mindat:1:2:339180:1

GUID (UUID V4):

Discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers on 28 March 1802 and named after Pallas Athena (Ancient Greek: Παλλάς Ἀθηνᾶ), an alternate name for the goddess Athena. Its spectrum and estimated density resemble carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. The stony-iron Pallasite meteorites are not connected to the Pallas asteroid, being instead named after the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas.

It is 550 km × 516 km × 476 km with a mean density of 2.57±0.19 g/cm³.

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Wikipedia:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas
Wikidata ID:	Q3002

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2 Pallas, Main Belt Asteroids, Outer Space i
Regional Level Types
2 Pallas Asteroid
Main Belt Asteroids Group of Asteroids
Outer Space Deep Space