(176) Iduna

(176) Iduna is an asteroid belonging to the asteroid belt discovered by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters from the Litchfield Observatory in Clinton, United States, on October 14, 1877. It is named after a club in Stockholm where an astronomical meeting was held in 1877.

Orbital characteristics

Iduna is located at an average distance from the Sun of 3,188 AU, and can get as close as 2,658 AU. It has an eccentricity of 0.1661 and an orbital inclination of 22.59°. It takes 2079 days to complete one orbit around the Sun.