Virtus
494 Virtus (A902 TF)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 100.786 km
- Rotation period
- 40.42 hours
- Albedo
- 0.065
- Absolute magnitude H
- 9.28 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- C
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- Ch
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.98 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0643
- Inclination
- 7.08°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.79 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.18 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,880 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460599.551
- Earth MOID
- 1.78 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 101 km across — 25.2% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,880 Earth days (about 5.1 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.