Thule
279 Thule (A888 UA)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 126.59 km
- Rotation period
- 23.896 hours
- Albedo
- 0.0412
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.58 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- D
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- X
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- OMB — Outer Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 4.27 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0439
- Inclination
- 2.33°
- Perihelion distance
- 4.08 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 4.46 AU
- Orbital period
- 3,220 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460158.020
- Earth MOID
- 3.1 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 127 km across — 31.6% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 3,220 Earth days (about 8.8 years).
- Sunlight needs about 36 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 4.3 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.