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256 Walpurga
Discovery
Discovered by	Johann Palisa
Discovery date	3 April 1886
Designations
MPC designation	(256) Walpurga
Pronunciation	/vælˈpɜːrɡə/
Named after	Saint Walpurga
Alternative designations	A886 GA, 1951 VJ
Minor planet category	Main belt
Orbital characteristics^[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	130.04 yr (47496 d)
Aphelion	3.19960 AU (478.653 Gm)
Perihelion	2.79984 AU (418.850 Gm)
Semi-major axis	2.99972 AU (448.752 Gm)
Eccentricity	0.066634
Orbital period (sidereal)	5.20 yr (1897.7 d)
Mean anomaly	352.098°
Mean motion	0° 11^m 22.945^s / day
Inclination	13.3281°
Longitude of ascending node	182.937°
Argument of perihelion	46.5713°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	63.34±2.7 km
Synodic rotation period	16.664 h (0.6943 d)^[1] 16.64 h^[2]
Geometric albedo	0.0530±0.005
Absolute magnitude (H)	9.9

256 Walpurga is a large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on 3 April 1886 in Vienna and was named after Saint Walburga.

Photometric observations at the Oakley Observatory in Terre Haute, Indiana, during 2007 were used to build a light curve for this asteroid. The asteroid displayed a rotation period of 16.64 ± 0.02 hours and a brightness variation of 0.38 ± 0.02 in magnitude.^[2]

^ ^a ^b "256 Walpurga". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Shipley2008 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).