453 Tea

{{Short description|Main-belt asteroid}}

{{Distinguish|405 Thia}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox planet

| minorplanet=yes

| name=453 Tea

| image=

| caption=

| background=#D6D6D6

| discovery_ref=

| discoverer=Auguste Charlois

| discovery_site=Nice

| discovered=22 February 1900

| mpc_name=(453) Tea

| pronounced={{IPA|fr|te.a|lang}}The English would presumably be {{IPAc-en|'|t|eɪ|ə}} or {{IPAc-en|'|t|iː|ə}} (rhyming with "Thea"), but either way not like the English word "tea".

| alt_names=1900 FA

| named_after=

| mp_category=Main belt (Flora family)

| orbit_ref={{Cite web |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Tea |title=453 Tea (1900 FA) |work=JPL Small-Body Database |publisher=NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory |access-date=10 May 2016}}

| epoch=31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)

| semimajor={{Convert|2.1836|AU|Gm|abbr=on}}

| perihelion={{Convert|1.9452|AU|Gm|abbr=on}}

| time_periastron = 2023-May-27

| aphelion={{Convert|2.4219|AU|Gm|abbr=on|lk=on}}

| eccentricity=0.1092

| period=3.23 yr (1178.6 d)

| inclination=5.5512°

| asc_node=11.7240°

| arg_peri=220.40893°

| mean_anomaly=318.7251°

| dimensions={{val|20.93|1.1|ul=km}}

| mass=

| density=

| rotation={{Convert|6.811|+/-|0.001|h|d|abbr=on|lk=on}}

| spectral_type=S

| magnitude=

| abs_magnitude=10.5

| albedo={{val|0.1827|0.022}}

| mean_motion={{Deg2DMS|0.3055|sup=ms}} / day

| observation_arc=116.15 yr (42424 d)

| uncertainty=0

}}

453 Tea{{Efn|Pronounced as two syllables.}} is an S-type asteroid{{cite web|url=http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/taxonomy.html |title=Asteroid Taxonomy |access-date=2007-03-15 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070310220044/http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/taxonomy.html |archive-date=2007-03-10 }} belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt. Its diameter is about 21 km and it has an albedo of 0.183.{{cite web|url=http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/imps.html |title=IRAS Minor Planet Survey (IMPS)|access-date=2009-01-08 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070119015129/http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/imps.html |archive-date=2007-01-19 }} Its rotation period is 6.4 hours.{{cite web|url=http://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/lc.html |title=Asteroid Lightcurve Parameters|access-date=2008-11-03 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20060614093519/http://www.psi.edu/pds/archive/lc.html |archive-date=2006-06-14 }}

In the 1980s Tea was considered as a target for the planned French Vesta spacecraft.{{Cite journal|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1985S%26T....69..507B&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format=&high=444b66a47d22969|bibcode=1985S&T....69..507B|title=A Radar Tour of Venus|last1=Beatty|first1=J. K.|journal=Sky and Telescope|year=1985|volume=69|page=507}} The spacecraft was not built.

Tea was discovered by Auguste Charlois on February 22, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FA. It is unknown after what it was named.{{cite book |last=Schmadel |first=Lutz D. |title=Dictionary of Minor Planet Names |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/5570999/Dictionary-of-Minor-Planet-Names |date=2003 |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin, Heidelberg, New York |isbn=3-540-00238-3 |page=51 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314234547/http://www.scribd.com/doc/5570999/Dictionary-of-Minor-Planet-Names |archive-date=2014-03-14 }}

It came to opposition at apparent magnitude 12.2 on 3 May 2023 and then perihelion on 27 May 2023.