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10 Hygiea

Asteroid

A large main-belt asteroid roughly 434 kilometers wide that is nearly spherical in shape, making it one of the four largest objects in the asteroid belt after Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas.

Key Facts

orbital regime

Asteroid Belt

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mass

8.7400e+19 kg

radius

215 km

hill radius

102,059 km

semi-major axis

3.142 AU

eccentricity

0.113

inclination

3.832º

longitude of the ascending node

283.2º

argument of periapsis

312.32º

orbital period

5.568 years

surface gravity

0.013 g

discovery date

April 12, 1849

discovered by

Annibale de Gasparis at Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte

name origins

Named after Hygieia, Greek goddess of health

dimensions

407.12 km diameter

albedo

0.072

material composition

C-type asteroid

density

2.56 g/cm³
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