Steins
2867 Steins (1969 VC)
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📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 5.16 km
- Rotation period
- 6.049 hours
- Albedo
- 0.3
- Absolute magnitude H
- 13.13 mag
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.36 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.147
- Inclination
- 9.92°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.02 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 2.71 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,330 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461512.307
- Earth MOID
- 1.03 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 5 km across — 1.3% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,330 Earth days (about 3.6 years).
- Sunlight needs about 20 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.4 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.