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The asteroid 153 Hilda was studied by photometric, spectroscopic and polarimetric observations during the apparition in 1992. The rotation period was determined to 5.11 hours with a lightcurve amplitude of 0.05 magnitudes. From our spectrum we find 153 Hilda to be of taxonomic type P. The polarization value of -0.23 at a phase angle of 3.2 degrees seems normal for a P-type asteroid. Long term integrations of the orbit shows that it is stable over time intervals of several million years.
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Partly based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile
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Lagerkvist, C.I., di Martino, M., Blanco, C. et al. Physical studies of asteroids XXX: the asteroid 153 Hilda. Earth Moon Planet 71, 189–194 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00612956
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