| Minorplanet: | yes |
| Background: |
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| 356 Liguria | |
| Discovered: | 21 January 1893 |
| Mpc Name: | (356) Liguria |
| Alt Names: | 1893 G |
| Epoch: | 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) |
| Semimajor: | 2.75806AU |
| Perihelion: | 2.10382AU |
| Aphelion: | 3.4123abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
| Eccentricity: | 0.23721 |
| Period: | 4.58 yr (1673.0 d) |
| Inclination: | 8.2243° |
| Asc Node: | 354.796° |
| Arg Peri: | 78.566° |
| Dimensions: | 134.76 ± 5.17 km |
| Density: | 6.10 ± 1.36 g/cm3 |
| Rotation: | 31.82abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
| Abs Magnitude: | 8.22 |
| Mean Motion: | / day |
| Observation Arc: | 123.10 yr (44961 d) |
| Uncertainty: | 0 |
356 Liguria is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Auguste Charlois on January 21, 1893, in Nice. It is one of seven of Charlois's discoveries that was expressly named by the Astromomisches Rechen-Institut (Astronomical Calculation Institute), and was named for the Italian region.[1]
13-cm radar observations of this asteroid from the Arecibo Observatory between 1980 and 1985 were used to produce a diameter estimate of 155 km.
Since 1991, the asteroid has been observed in stellar occultation a total of 6 times, all but one were single chord occultations. A 2006 double chord observation indicated a diameter of 126.6 +/-8.3 km.[2]