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536 Merapi
Merapi
is a
main belt asteroid
orbiting
the Sun
. It was discovered by
American
astronomer
George Henry Peters
on
May 11
,
1904
, from
Washington
, D.C.
Photometric
observations
of this
asteroid
at the
Oakley Observatory
in
Terre Haute, Indiana
, during 2006 gave a
light curve
with a period of 8.
809
± 0.008
hours
and a
brightness
variation
of 0.23 ± 0.05 in
magnitude
.