Amycus
55576 Amycus (2002 GB10)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 100.9 km
- Rotation period
- 9.76 hours
- Albedo
- 0.18
- Absolute magnitude H
- 7.56 mag
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- CEN — Centaur
- Semi-major axis
- 24.9 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.393
- Inclination
- 13.4°
- Perihelion distance
- 15.1 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 34.7 AU
- Orbital period
- 45,500 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2452647.335
- Earth MOID
- 14.2 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 45,500 Earth days (about 124.6 years).
- Sunlight needs about 3.5 hours to reach it on average (semi-major axis 24.9 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.