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269 Justitia
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269 Justitia is an asteroid located in the middle main asteroid belt. It was discovered on 21 September 1887 by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at Vienna Observatory and was named after Justitia, th
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…623 Chimaera, 13294 Rockox, 88055 Ghaf, 23871 Ousha, and 59980 Moza. It will then orbit and deliver a landing craft to the unusually red asteroid 269 Justitia in 2034. The spacecraft aims to study the asteroids to study their origins and the potential for asteroid mining. Sarah Al Amiri…
Shape of Justitia as seen by stellar occultation observations on 31 August 2023
Diagram of Justitia's orbit with other planets
Three mutually orthogonal views of Justitia's shape model constructed from its rotational light curve
Comparison of the very red spectra of asteroids Pompeja (orange) and Justitia (purple) with other Solar System bodies. The spectra of Pompeja and Justitia match best with those of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), suggesting similar compositions.