Cava
505 Cava (A902 QA)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 115 km
- Rotation period
- 8.1789 hours
- Albedo
- 0.04
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.74 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- FC
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.69 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.242
- Inclination
- 9.82°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.04 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.34 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,610 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461443.140
- Earth MOID
- 1.05 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 115 km across — 28.7% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,610 Earth days (about 4.4 years).
- Sunlight needs about 22 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.7 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.