308 Polyxo
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308 Polyxo is a very large main-belt
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...

 asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

. It is classified as a rare T-type asteroid
T-type asteroid
T-type asteroids are rare inner-belt asteroids of unknown composition with dark, featureless and moderately red spectra, and a moderate absorption feature shortwards of 0.85 µm. No direct meteorite analog has been found to date. Thought to be anhydrous, they are believed to be related to...

.

It was discovered by A. Borrelly
Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly
Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly was a French astronomer.Working in Marseille, he discovered asteroids and comets.He discovered the periodic comet 19P/Borrelly.The asteroid 1539 Borrelly was named in his honour....

 on March 31, 1891, in Marseilles.
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