Chicago
334 Chicago (A892 QB)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 198.77 km
- Rotation period
- 7.361 hours
- Albedo
- 0.041
- Absolute magnitude H
- 7.63 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- C
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- OMB — Outer Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 3.94 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0284
- Inclination
- 4.72°
- Perihelion distance
- 3.83 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 4.05 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,860 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2459913.267
- Earth MOID
- 2.82 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 199 km across — 49.7% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,860 Earth days (about 7.8 years).
- Sunlight needs about 33 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.9 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.