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Hygiea
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10 Hygiea, generally known as Hygiea, is a large asteroid in the outer main asteroid belt, discovered on 12 April 1849 by the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis. It is the fourth-largest main-belt asteroid by both volume and mass, with a mean diameter of 433 kilometres and a mass constituting about three percent of the main belt's total.
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a large asteroid in the outer region of the main asteroid belt
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12 April 1849
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Hygiea has an orbital period of 5.57 Earth years and follows an elliptical orbit where its distance from the Sun ranges between 2.79 AU (420 million km; 260 million mi) at perihelion to 3.49 AU (520 million km; 320 million mi) at aphelion.
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