453 Tea

453 Tea
Discovery
Discovered by Auguste Charlois
Discovery site Nice
Discovery date 22 February 1900
Designations
MPC designation (453) Tea
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°
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

    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

    1. ↑ "453 Tea (1900 FA)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
    2. 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.
    3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2007-03-15.
    4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
    5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-06-14. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
    6. ↑
    7. ↑ 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 2014-03-14.


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