Psyche
16 Psyche (A852 FA)
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📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 222 km
- Rotation period
- 4.196 hours
- Albedo
- 0.1203
- Absolute magnitude H
- 6.2 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- M
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- X
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.93 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.135
- Inclination
- 3.1°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.53 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.32 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,830 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460795.475
- Earth MOID
- 1.53 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 222 km across — 55.5% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,830 Earth days (about 5 years).
- Sunlight needs about 24 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.9 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.