Nestor
659 Nestor (A908 FE)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 112.32 km
- Rotation period
- 15.98 hours
- Albedo
- 0.035
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.69 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- XC
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- TJN — Jupiter Trojan
- Semi-major axis
- 5.17 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.116
- Inclination
- 4.52°
- Perihelion distance
- 4.57 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.77 AU
- Orbital period
- 4,290 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2463111.358
- Earth MOID
- 3.56 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 112 km across — 28.1% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 4,290 Earth days (about 11.7 years).
- Sunlight needs about 43 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 5.2 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.