453 Tea
Not to be confused with 405 Thia.
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Auguste Charlois |
| Discovery site | Nice |
| Discovery date | 22 February 1900 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 453 |
| 1900 FA | |
| Main belt (Flora family) | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 116.15 yr (42424 d) |
| Aphelion | 2.4219 AU (362.31 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.9452 AU (291.00 Gm) |
| 2.1836 AU (326.66 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1092 |
| 3.23 yr (1178.6 d) | |
| 318.7251° | |
| 0° 18m 19.8s / day | |
| Inclination | 5.5512° |
| 11.7240° | |
| 220.40893° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.9386 AU (140.41 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.5693 AU (384.36 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.665 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 20.93±1.1 km |
| 6.811 ± 0.001 h (0.283792 ± 4.2×10−5 d)[2] | |
| 0.1827±0.022 | |
| S | |
| 10.5 | |
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453 Tea is an S-type asteroid[3] belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt.[2] Its diameter is about 21 km and it has an albedo of 0.183.[4] Its rotation period is 6.4 hours.[5]
In the 1980s Tea was considered as a target for the planned French Vesta spacecraft.[6] The spacecraft was not built.
Tea was discovered by Auguste Charlois on February 22, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FA. It is unknown after what it was named.[7]
References
- ↑ "453 Tea (1900 FA)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- 1 2 Kryszczynska, A.; et al. (October 2012). "Do Slivan states exist in the Flora family?. I. Photometric survey of the Flora region". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 546: 51. Bibcode:2012A&A...546A..72K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219199. A72.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2007-03-15.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-06-14. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
- ↑
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer. p. 51. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
External links
- 453 Tea at the JPL Small-Body Database
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