Amphitrite
29 Amphitrite (A854 EB)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 189.559 km
- Rotation period
- 5.3921 hours
- Albedo
- 0.216
- Absolute magnitude H
- 5.97 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- S
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- S
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.55 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0732
- Inclination
- 6.08°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.37 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 2.74 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,490 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461890.764
- Earth MOID
- 1.39 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 190 km across — 47.4% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,490 Earth days (about 4.1 years).
- Sunlight needs about 21 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.6 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.