255 Oppavia

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255 Oppavia is a sizeable Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on 31 March 1886 in Vienna and was named after Opava, a town in the Czech Republic, then part of Austria-Hungary, where Palisa was born.[1] It is orbiting the Sun at a distance of Script error: No such module "val". with an orbital eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.077 and a period of Script error: No such module "convert".. The orbital plane is inclined by an angle of 9.47° to the plane of the ecliptic.[2]

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