Metis
9 Metis (A848 HA)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 190 km
- Rotation period
- 5.079 hours
- Albedo
- 0.118
- Absolute magnitude H
- 6.18 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- S
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.39 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.122
- Inclination
- 5.58°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.09 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 2.68 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,350 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461602.192
- Earth MOID
- 1.11 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 190 km across — 47.5% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,350 Earth days (about 3.7 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.