Alauda
702 Alauda (A910 OA)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 190.98 km
- Rotation period
- 16.7072 hours
- Albedo
- 0.061
- Absolute magnitude H
- 7.47 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- C
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- B
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 3.19 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0153
- Inclination
- 20.6°
- Perihelion distance
- 3.14 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.24 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,080 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460381.695
- Earth MOID
- 2.13 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 191 km across — 47.7% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,080 Earth days (about 5.7 years).
- Sunlight needs about 27 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.2 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.