Leonteus
3793 Leonteus (1985 TE3)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 112.046 km
- Rotation period
- 5.621 hours
- Albedo
- 0.042
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.78 mag
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- TJN — Jupiter Trojan
- Semi-major axis
- 5.23 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0908
- Inclination
- 20.9°
- Perihelion distance
- 4.75 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.7 AU
- Orbital period
- 4,370 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460199.129
- Earth MOID
- 3.85 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 112 km across — 28% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 4,370 Earth days (about 12 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.