Pallas
2 Pallas (A802 FA)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 513 km
- Rotation period
- 7.8132 hours
- Albedo
- 0.155
- Absolute magnitude H
- 4.12 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- B
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- B
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.77 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.231
- Inclination
- 34.9°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.13 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.41 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,680 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461695.031
- Earth MOID
- 1.23 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 513 km across — 1.3 times the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,680 Earth days (about 4.6 years).
- Sunlight needs about 23 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.8 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.