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Short Description The asteroid 2685 Masursky is a main-belt asteroid. It was named after Harold Masursky (1923–1990), a planetary geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, who worked on numerous space missions. Little was known about Masursky until the Cassini space probe, en route to Jupiter and Saturn, flew past it on 23 January 2000. Because Cassini passed the asteroid at a distance of 1.6 million kilometres (about four times the Earth–Moon distance), the images it returned showed nothing more than a dot. Nevertheless, Cassini was able to determine Masursky's size, about 15–20 km in diameter. 2685 Masursky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell Discovery date 3 May 1981 Type Asteroid AddInfo Eunomia family Satellite of Sun Minor planet number 2685 Orbit Prograde Rotation Direct Apoapsis 09 426 495 000 km Periapsis 09 342 250 000 km Semi-major axis 09 384 372 000 km Distance from Sun 01 2.569 37 au Eccentricity 0.109 59 Orbital period 4.12 years | 1504.3 days Orbital speed 02 18.53 km/s Mean anomaly 223.769° Inclination to the ecliptic 012.126 9° Longitude of the ascending node 215.364° Argument of periapsis 288.189° Diameter/Size 02 15 - 20 km Mass 1016×0.5–1.1 kg Density 01 2.7 g/cm3 Surface gravity 0.006 m/s2 Escape velocity 02 10 m/s Albedo geometric 0.06–0.11 Temperature mean 03 176 K | −97 °C Temperature max 02 264 K | −9° C Absolute magnitude 12.2 - Comments
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