Europa
52 Europa (A858 CA)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 303.918 km
- Rotation period
- 5.6304 hours
- Albedo
- 0.057
- Absolute magnitude H
- 6.65 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- CF
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- C
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 3.09 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.112
- Inclination
- 7.48°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.75 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.44 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,990 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461261.670
- Earth MOID
- 1.76 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 304 km across — 76% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,990 Earth days (about 5.4 years).
- Sunlight needs about 26 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.