67 Asia

67 Asia is a large main belt asteroid. It was discovered by English astronomer N. R. Pogson on April 17, 1861, from the Madras Observatory. Pogson chose the name to refer both to Asia, a figure in Greek mythology, and to the continent of Asia, because the asteroid was the first to be discovered from that continent.^[4]

This object is orbiting the Sun with a period of 3.77 years, a semimajor axis of 2.421 AU, and an eccentricity of 0.185. It has a 2:1 commensurability with Mars, having an orbital period double that of the planet.^[5] The orbital plane lies at an inclination of 6.0° to the plane of the ecliptic. This is a stony S-type asteroid with a cross-sectional size of 56 km,^[2] Photometry from the Oakley Observatory during 2006 produced a lightcurve that indicated a sidereal rotation period of 15.90±0.02 with an amplitude of 0.26±0.04 in magnitude.^[6]

References

↑ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
1 2 "67 Asia (A861 HA)". JPL Solar System Dynamics. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
↑ Asteroid Data Sets Archived 2009-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003), Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 22, ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3
↑ Plastino, A. R.; Vucetich, H. (August 1992), "Resonant asteroids and the equivalence principle", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 262 (1): 321–325, Bibcode:1992A&A...262..321P
↑ Ditteon, Richard; Hawkins, Scot (September 2007), "Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Observatory – October–November 2006", The Minor Planet Bulletin, 34 (3): 59–64, Bibcode:2007MPBu...34...59D, ISSN 1052-8091.