Minerva
93 Minerva (A867 QA)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 154.155 km
- Rotation period
- 5.982 hours
- Albedo
- 0.056
- Absolute magnitude H
- 7.88 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- CU
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- C
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.75 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.143
- Inclination
- 8.54°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.36 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.15 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,670 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461403.127
- Earth MOID
- 1.36 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 154 km across — 38.5% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,670 Earth days (about 4.6 years).
- Sunlight needs about 23 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.8 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.