Aglaja
47 Aglaja (A857 RA)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 168.174 km
- Rotation period
- 13.178 hours
- Albedo
- 0.082
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.14 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- C
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- B
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.88 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.134
- Inclination
- 4.97°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.49 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.27 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,780 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461921.200
- Earth MOID
- 1.48 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 1,780 Earth days (about 4.9 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.