Orus
21900 Orus (1999 VQ10)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 50.81 km
- Rotation period
- 13.45 hours
- Albedo
- 0.075
- Absolute magnitude H
- 10.04 mag
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- TJN — Jupiter Trojan
- Semi-major axis
- 5.12 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0367
- Inclination
- 8.47°
- Perihelion distance
- 4.94 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.31 AU
- Orbital period
- 4,240 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460060.105
- Earth MOID
- 3.95 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 51 km across — 12.7% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 4,240 Earth days (about 11.6 years).
- Sunlight needs about 43 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 5.1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.