Adorea
268 Adorea (A887 LA)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 144.585 km
- Rotation period
- 7.8 hours
- Albedo
- 0.041
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.6 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- FC
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 3.09 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.137
- Inclination
- 2.44°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.67 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.52 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,980 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461881.823
- Earth MOID
- 1.67 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 145 km across — 36.1% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,980 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.