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270 Anahita
Anahita
is a
stony
S-type
Main belt asteroid
. It was
discovered
by C. H. F.
Peters
on
October 8
,
1887
, in
Clinton, New York
, and was named after the
Avestan
divinity
Aredvi Sura Anahita
.
In 2001
, the
asteroid
was detected by
radar
from the
Arecibo Observatory
at a
distance
of 0.92
AU
. The resulting
data
yielded an
effective
diameter
of.