Chariklo
10199 Chariklo (1997 CU26)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 302 km
- Rotation period
- 7.004 hours
- Albedo
- 0.045
- Absolute magnitude H
- 6.55 mag
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- D
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- CEN — Centaur
- Semi-major axis
- 15.7 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.171
- Inclination
- 23.4°
- Perihelion distance
- 13 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 18.4 AU
- Orbital period
- 22,800 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2452962.706
- Earth MOID
- 12.1 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 302 km across — 75.5% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 22,800 Earth days (about 62.4 years).
- Sunlight needs about 2.2 hours to reach it on average (semi-major axis 15.7 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.