Cybele
65 Cybele (A861 EB)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 237.26 km
- Rotation period
- 6.0814 hours
- Albedo
- 0.0706
- Absolute magnitude H
- 6.83 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- P
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- Xc
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- OMB — Outer Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 3.41 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.128
- Inclination
- 3.57°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.97 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.84 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,300 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461558.449
- Earth MOID
- 1.96 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 237 km across — 59.3% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,300 Earth days (about 6.3 years).
- Sunlight needs about 28 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.4 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.