page_title: 257 Silesia
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: 257 Silesia / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: A three-dimensional model of 257 Silesia that was computed using light curve inversion techniques.
context_page_description: Silesia is a large Main belt asteroid, about 73 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on 5 April 1886 at Vienna Observatory, Austria.
context_section_description: It is named after Silesia, the province of the discoverer's birthplace (nowadays most of Silesia is in Poland, but Palisa's birthplace is in the small part of Silesia that is in the Czech Republic).
caption: Light curve-based 3D-model of Silesia
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