453 Tea
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453 Tea is an S-type asteroid
http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/taxonomy.html belonging to the Flora family
in the Main Belt. Its diameter is about 21 km and it has an albedo of 0.183 http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/imps.html. Its rotation period is 6.4 hourshttp://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/lc.html.
In the 1980s Tea was considered as a target for the planned French Vesta spacecraft http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1985S%26T....69..507B&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format=&high=444b66a47d22969. The spacecraft was not built.
Tea was discovered by Auguste Charlois
on February 22, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FA.
S-type asteroid
S-type asteroids are of a stony composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.-Characteristics:...
http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/taxonomy.html belonging to the Flora family
Flora family
The Flora family of asteroids is a large grouping of S-type asteroids in the inner main belt, whose origin and properties are relatively poorly understood at present...
in the Main Belt. Its diameter is about 21 km and it has an albedo of 0.183 http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/imps.html. Its rotation period is 6.4 hourshttp://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/lc.html.
In the 1980s Tea was considered as a target for the planned French Vesta spacecraft http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1985S%26T....69..507B&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format=&high=444b66a47d22969. The spacecraft was not built.
Tea was discovered by Auguste Charlois
Auguste Charlois
Auguste Honoré Charlois was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice.His first discovery was the asteroid 267 Tirza in 1887...
on February 22, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FA.