Papagena
471 Papagena (A901 LA)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 148.128 km
- Rotation period
- 7.113 hours
- Albedo
- 0.164
- Absolute magnitude H
- 6.34 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- S
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- S
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.89 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.229
- Inclination
- 15°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.23 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.55 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,790 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460967.524
- Earth MOID
- 1.26 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 148 km across — 37% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,790 Earth days (about 4.9 years).
- Sunlight needs about 24 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.9 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.