Scheila
596 Scheila (A906 DL)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 159.726 km
- Rotation period
- 15.848 hours
- Albedo
- 0.04
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.92 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- PCD
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- T
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.93 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.16
- Inclination
- 14.6°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.47 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.4 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,830 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461573.319
- Earth MOID
- 1.45 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 160 km across — 39.9% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,830 Earth days (about 5 years).
- Sunlight needs about 24 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.9 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.