(85) Io

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(85 ) Io is one of the main asteroid belt asteroid, which was discovered on July 19, 1865 by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters. It was named after celestial bodies Io, a lover of Zeus.

Io moves at a distance of 2.1415 ( perihelion ) to 3.1652 ( aphelion ) astronomical units in 4,322 years of the sun. The orbit is inclined 11.9657 ° to the ecliptic, the orbital eccentricity is 0.1929.

Io has a diameter of 145 kilometers. It has a dark carbonaceous surface with an albedo of 0.067. In approximately 6 hours and 53 minutes to rotate around its own axis.

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