Diomedes
1437 Diomedes (1937 PB)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 117.786 km
- Rotation period
- 24.49 hours
- Albedo
- 0.061
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.14 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- DP
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- TJN — Jupiter Trojan
- Semi-major axis
- 5.23 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0459
- Inclination
- 20.5°
- Perihelion distance
- 4.99 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.47 AU
- Orbital period
- 4,370 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2459715.532
- Earth MOID
- 4.04 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 118 km across — 29.4% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 4,370 Earth days (about 12 years).
- Sunlight needs about 43 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 5.2 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.