Hektor
624 Hektor (A907 CF)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 225 km
- Rotation period
- 6.924 hours
- Albedo
- 0.025
- Absolute magnitude H
- 7.32 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- D
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- TJN — Jupiter Trojan
- Semi-major axis
- 5.28 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0243
- Inclination
- 18.1°
- Perihelion distance
- 5.15 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.41 AU
- Orbital period
- 4,430 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460894.081
- Earth MOID
- 4.16 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 225 km across — 56.3% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 4,430 Earth days (about 12.1 years).
- Sunlight needs about 44 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 5.3 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.