55 Pandora

55 Pandora is a quite large and very bright Main belt asteroid.

Pandora was discovered by G. Searle on September 10, 1858. It was his first and only asteroid discovery. It is named after Pandora, the first woman in Greek mythology.

Not to be confused with Saturn's moon Pandora.

[edit] Aspects

Stationary, retrograde	Opposition	Distance to Earth (AU)	Maximum brightness (mag)	Stationary, prograde	Conjunction to Sun
10 May 2004	27 June 2004	1.75920	11.6	16 August 2004	23 February 2005
24 September 2005	10 November 2005	1.42711	10.8	23 December 2005	11 July 2006
2 January 2007	22 February 2007	2.03618	12.0	18 April 2007	4 October 2007
12 March 2008	6 May 2008	2.07560	12.1	29 June 2008	19 December 2008
4 July 2009	17 August 2009	1.47595	11.0	5 October 2009	25 April 2010
14 November 2010	31 December 2010	1.69111	11.4	16 February 2011	20 August 2011
30 January 2012	24 March 2012	2.14642	12.0	19 May 2012	2 November 2012
21 April 2013	10 June 2013	1.87217	11.8	31 July 2013	1 February 2014
31 August 2014	17 October 2014	1.37257	10.5	30 November 2014	21 June 2015
21 December 2015	8 February 2016	1.95459	11.9	2 April 2016	21 September 2016
27 February 2017	23 April 2017	2.12387	12.1	17 June 2017	5 December 2017
11 June 2018	26 July 2018	1.58713	11.3	14 September 2018	30 March 2019
26 October 2019	12 December 2019	1.57139	11.2	26 January 2020	4 August 2020

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