Nuwa
150 Nuwa (A875 UA)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 119.128 km
- Rotation period
- 8.1347 hours
- Albedo
- 0.052
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.58 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- CX
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- Cb
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.99 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.124
- Inclination
- 2.2°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.62 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.36 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,890 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460661.579
- Earth MOID
- 1.61 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 119 km across — 29.8% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,890 Earth days (about 5.2 years).
- Sunlight needs about 25 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.