Eurybates
3548 Eurybates (1973 SO)
🚀 Visited by spacecraft
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 63.885 km
- Rotation period
- 8.711 hours
- Albedo
- 0.052
- Absolute magnitude H
- 9.79 mag
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- TJN — Jupiter Trojan
- Semi-major axis
- 5.22 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0906
- Inclination
- 8.05°
- Perihelion distance
- 4.74 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.69 AU
- Orbital period
- 4,350 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2459680.041
- Earth MOID
- 3.76 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 64 km across — 16% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 4,350 Earth days (about 11.9 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.