(287) Nephthys

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(287 ) Nephthys is an asteroid of the main asteroid belt, which was discovered on August 25, 1889 by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters at the observatory of Clinton (USA). It was named after celestial bodies Nephthys, the goddess of the dead and the birth of the Egyptian mythology.

Nephthys moves at a distance of 2.2977 ( perihelion ) to 2.4077 ( aphelion ) astronomical units in 3.6088 years of the sun. The orbit is inclined 10.0234 ° to the ecliptic, the orbital eccentricity is 0.0234.

Nephthys has a diameter of 68 kilometers. It has a bright surface with an albedo of 0.185. It is around 7 hours and 36 minutes to rotate around its own axis.

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