Aegina
91 Aegina (A866 VA)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 103.402 km
- Rotation period
- 6.025 hours
- Albedo
- 0.048
- Absolute magnitude H
- 9.12 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- CP
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- Ch
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.59 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.108
- Inclination
- 2.1°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.31 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 2.87 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,520 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460938.787
- Earth MOID
- 1.33 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 103 km across — 25.9% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,520 Earth days (about 4.2 years).
- Sunlight needs about 22 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.6 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.