Kreusa
488 Kreusa (A902 MC)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 168.117 km
- Rotation period
- 32.645 hours
- Albedo
- 0.047
- Absolute magnitude H
- 7.89 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- C
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 3.17 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.159
- Inclination
- 11.5°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.67 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.67 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,060 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460624.424
- Earth MOID
- 1.7 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 168 km across — 42% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,060 Earth days (about 5.6 years).
- Sunlight needs about 26 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.2 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.