453 Tea

Main-belt asteroid

Tea[4] (minor planet designation: 453 Tea) is an S-type asteroid[5] belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt.[3] Its diameter is about 21 km and it has an albedo of 0.183.[6] Its rotation period is 6.4 hours.[7]

In the 1980s Tea was considered as a target for the planned French Vesta spacecraft.[8] 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.[9]

It came to opposition at apparent magnitude 12.2 on 3 May 2023 and then perihelion on 27 May 2023.[2]

References

  1. ^ The English would presumably be /ˈteɪə/ or /ˈtiːə/ (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. ^ pronounced as two syllables
  5. ^ "Asteroid Taxonomy". Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2007.
  6. ^ "IRAS Minor Planet Survey (IMPS)". Archived from the original on 19 January 2007. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
  7. ^ "Asteroid Lightcurve Parameters". Archived from the original on 14 June 2006. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
  8. ^ Beatty, J. K. (1985). "A Radar Tour of Venus". Sky and Telescope. 69: 507. Bibcode:1985S&T....69..507B.
  9. ^ 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

  • 453 Tea at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
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