Desiderata
344 Desiderata (A892 WA)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 124.181 km
- Rotation period
- 10.747 hours
- Albedo
- 0.067
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.28 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- C
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.6 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.314
- Inclination
- 18.4°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.78 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.41 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,530 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460906.074
- Earth MOID
- 0.831 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 124 km across — 31% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,530 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.