Hersilia
206 Hersilia (A879 TC)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 113 km
- Rotation period
- 11.122 hours
- Albedo
- 0.057
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.92 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- C
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- C
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.74 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.041
- Inclination
- 3.78°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.63 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 2.85 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,660 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460973.312
- Earth MOID
- 1.65 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 113 km across — 28.2% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,660 Earth days (about 4.5 years).
- Sunlight needs about 23 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.7 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.