453 Tea
Appearance
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Auguste Charlois |
Discovery site | Nice |
Discovery date | 22 February 1900 |
Designations | |
(453) Tea | |
Pronunciation | French: [te.a][1] |
1900 FA | |
Main belt (Flora family) | |
Orbital characteristics[2] | |
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° | |
2023-May-27 | |
220.40893° | |
Physical characteristics | |
Dimensions | 20.93±1.1 km |
6.811 ± 0.001 h (0.283792 ± 4.2×10−5 d)[3] | |
0.1827±0.022 | |
S | |
10.5 | |
453 Tea[a] is an S-type asteroid[4] belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt.[3] Its diameter is about 21 km and it has an albedo of 0.183.[5] Its rotation period is 6.4 hours.[6]
In the 1980s Tea was considered as a target for the planned French Vesta spacecraft.[7] 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.[8]
It came to opposition at apparent magnitude 12.2 on 3 May 2023 and then perihelion on 27 May 2023.[2]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Pronounced as two syllables.
References
[edit]- ^ The English would presumably be /ˈteɪə/ or /ˈtiːə/ (rhyming with "Thea"), but either way not like the English word "tea".
- ^ a b "453 Tea (1900 FA)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Asteroid Taxonomy". Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2007.
- ^ "IRAS Minor Planet Survey (IMPS)". Archived from the original on 19 January 2007. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
- ^ "Asteroid Lightcurve Parameters". Archived from the original on 14 June 2006. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- ^ Beatty, J. K. (1985). "A Radar Tour of Venus". Sky and Telescope. 69: 507. Bibcode:1985S&T....69..507B.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer. p. 51. ISBN 3-540-00238-3. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014.
External links
[edit]- 453 Tea at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 453 Tea at the JPL Small-Body Database