SpazeAsteroid, C-type
Hygiea
Round enough that it might qualify as a dwarf planet. It is one of the darkest large bodies in the belt.
- Size
- 407 km
- Orbit
- 5.6 years
- Distance from Sun
- 2.8 to 3.5 AU
- Day
- 13.8 hours
- Gravity
- 0.017 g
- Reflects
- 7% of sunlight
Can we live on Hygiea?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.02 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 1 kg there.
Ground: Dark carbonaceous rock.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by VLT SPHERE