Germania
241 Germania (A884 RA)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 168.9 km
- Rotation period
- 15.51 hours
- Albedo
- 0.0575
- Absolute magnitude H
- 7.73 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- CP
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- B
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 3.05 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.106
- Inclination
- 5.52°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.72 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.37 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,940 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461921.252
- Earth MOID
- 1.72 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 169 km across — 42.2% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,940 Earth days (about 5.3 years).
- Sunlight needs about 25 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.