67 Asia

{{Short description|Main-belt asteroid}}

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

{{Infobox planet

| image=Asteroid 67 Asia. 5 exposures over 2 hours 13 Jan 2022 from UK. Approx 0.6° FoV (10 cycles).webm

| image_alt=Asteroid 67 Asia moving against background of distant stars 2022

| caption = 67 Asia

| minorplanet=yes

| background=#D6D6D6

| name=67 Asia

| discoverer=Norman Robert Pogson

| discovered=April 17, 1861

| mpc_name=(67) Asia

| alt_names=

| pronounced ={{IPAc-en|ˈ|eɪ|ʃ|i|ə}}Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language

| named_after = Asia and Asia

| mp_category=Main belt

| epoch=December 31, 2006 (JD 2454100.5)

| semimajor={{Convert|2.421|AU|Gm|abbr=on|lk=on}}

| perihelion={{Convert|1.973|AU|Gm|abbr=on|lk=on}}

| time_periastron = 2023-Dec-10

| aphelion={{Convert|2.869|AU|Gm|abbr=on|lk=on}}

| eccentricity=0.185

| period={{Convert|1376.048|days|years|2|order=flip|abbr=on}}

| inclination=6.027°

| asc_node=202.722°

| arg_peri=106.301°

| mean_anomaly=182.178°

| p_mean_motion=0.26133

| dimensions=60.99 ± 2.41 km

| mass={{nowrap|(1.03 ± 0.10) × 10¹⁸ kg}}

| density=8.66 ± 1.32 g/cm³

| rotation=15.89 hours

| spectral_type=S

| abs_magnitude=8.28

| albedo=0.255 [http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/albedo.html Asteroid Data Sets] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217104722/http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/albedo.html |date=2009-12-17 }}

}}

67 Asia is a large main belt asteroid. It was discovered by English astronomer N. R. Pogson on April 17, 1861, from the Madras Observatory. Pogson chose the name to refer both to Asia, a figure in Greek mythology, and to the continent of Asia, because the asteroid was the first to be discovered from that continent.

This object is orbiting the Sun with a period of {{Convert|1376.048|days|years|2|disp=out|abbr=off}}, a semimajor axis of {{Val|2.421|ul=AU}}, and an eccentricity of 0.185. It has a 2:1 commensurability with Mars, having an orbital period double that of the planet. The orbital plane lies at an inclination of 6.0° to the plane of the ecliptic. This is a stony S-type asteroid with a cross-sectional size of 61 km, Photometry from the Oakley Observatory during 2006 produced a lightcurve that indicated a sidereal rotation period of {{Val|15.90|0.02}} with an amplitude of {{Val|0.26|0.04}} in magnitude.