Pretoria
790 Pretoria (A912 BE)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 170.37 km
- Rotation period
- 10.37 hours
- Albedo
- 0.0384
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.03 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- P
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- OMB — Outer Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 3.4 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.156
- Inclination
- 20.6°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.87 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.93 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,290 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461628.965
- Earth MOID
- 1.88 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 170 km across — 42.6% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,290 Earth days (about 6.3 years).
- Sunlight needs about 28 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.4 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.