Palma
372 Palma (A893 QB)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 173.642 km
- Rotation period
- 8.567 hours
- Albedo
- 0.059
- Absolute magnitude H
- 7.39 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- BFC
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- B
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 3.16 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.252
- Inclination
- 23.8°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.36 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.96 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,050 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2462178.760
- Earth MOID
- 1.48 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 174 km across — 43.4% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,050 Earth days (about 5.6 years).
- Sunlight needs about 26 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.2 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.