(1685) Toro

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(1685 ) Toro is an Apollo asteroid by type.

The near-Earth asteroid was discovered on July 17, 1948 by Carl A. Wirtanen at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton. Toro is named after the maiden name of the wife ( Bethulia Toro) by Samuel Herrick, an American engineer and astronomer who studied the path of this asteroid.

Toro moves between 0.7712 AU ( perihelion ) and 1.9630 AU ( aphelion ) in approximately 1.6 years of the sun. The orbit is inclined 9.377 ° to the ecliptic, the orbital eccentricity is 0.4359.

Toro is located in an interesting orbit in a 8:5 resonance with the Earth on the one hand and a 13:5 resonance with Venus on the other. Therefore His path leads him every eight years up close to the earth.

Toro is classified as S- type and rotates in 10.196 hours around its own axis. The albedo of its surface is 0.31 and its diameter is estimated to be about 3 kilometers.

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