67 Asia
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67 Asia is a large main belt asteroid. It was discovered by English astronomer N. R. Pogson on April 17, 1861, from the Madras Observatory. Pogson chose the name to refer both to Asia, a figure in Greek mythology, and to the continent of Asia, because the asteroid was the first to be discovered from that continent.<ref name=Schmadel2003/>
This object is orbiting the Sun with a period of Template:Convert, a semimajor axis of Template:Val, and an eccentricity of 0.185. It has a 2:1 commensurability with Mars, having an orbital period double that of the planet.<ref name="Platsino1992" /> The orbital plane lies at an inclination of 6.0° to the plane of the ecliptic. This is a stony S-type asteroid with a cross-sectional size of 61 km,<ref name="Carry2012" /> Photometry from the Oakley Observatory during 2006 produced a lightcurve that indicated a sidereal rotation period of Template:Val with an amplitude of Template:Val in magnitude.<ref name="Ditteon2007" />
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