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453 Tea

453 Tea
Discovery
Discovered byAuguste Charlois
Discovery siteNice
Discovery date22 February 1900
Designations
(453) Tea
PronunciationFrench: [te.a][1]
1900 FA
Main belt (Flora family)
Orbital characteristics[2]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc116.15 yr (42424 d)
Aphelion2.4219 AU (362.31 Gm)
Perihelion1.9452 AU (291.00 Gm)
2.1836 AU (326.66 Gm)
Eccentricity0.1092
3.23 yr (1178.6 d)
318.7251°
0° 18m 19.8s / day
Inclination5.5512°
11.7240°
2023-May-27
220.40893°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions20.93±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

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  1. ^ Pronounced as two syllables.

References

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  1. ^ The English would presumably be /ˈtə/ or /ˈtə/ (rhyming with "Thea"), but either way not like the English word "tea".
  2. ^ a b "453 Tea (1900 FA)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Asteroid Taxonomy". Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2007.
  5. ^ "IRAS Minor Planet Survey (IMPS)". Archived from the original on 19 January 2007. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
  6. ^ "Asteroid Lightcurve Parameters". Archived from the original on 14 June 2006. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
  7. ^ Beatty, J. K. (1985). "A Radar Tour of Venus". Sky and Telescope. 69: 507. Bibcode:1985S&T....69..507B.
  8. ^ 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.
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