3255 Tholen

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3255 Tholen, provisional designation 1980 RA, is a stony binary asteroid, Mars-crosser and relatively fast rotator, that measures approximately 5.1 kilometers (3.2 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 2 September 1980, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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