Emita
481 Emita (A902 CB)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 101.829 km
- Rotation period
- 14.412 hours
- Albedo
- 0.032
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.78 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- C
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- Ch
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.74 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.157
- Inclination
- 9.85°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.31 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.17 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,660 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461917.339
- Earth MOID
- 1.32 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 102 km across — 25.5% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,660 Earth days (about 4.5 years).
- Sunlight needs about 23 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.7 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.