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- ↑ 'Castalia' in Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
- ↑ "646 Kastalia (1907 AC)". JPL Small-Body Database . NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory . Retrieved 5 May 2016.
