{{Short description|Main-belt asteroid}} {{Distinguish|405 Thia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox planet | minorplanet = yes | name = 453 Tea | image = 453 Tea.png | caption = Lightcurve-base 3D-model of 453 Tea. | background = #D6D6D6 | discovery_ref = | discoverer = Auguste Charlois | discovery_site = Nice | discovered = 22 February 1900 | mpc_name = (453) Tea | pronounced = {{IPA|fr|te.a|lang}}<ref>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".</ref> | alt_names = 1900 FA | named_after = | mp_category = Main belt (Flora family) | orbit_ref = <ref name="jpldata">{{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}}</ref> | 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}}<ref name="Kryszczynska-2012b"/> | 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<ref>{{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 }}</ref> belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt.<ref name="Kryszczynska-2012b"/> Its diameter is about 21&nbsp;km and it has an albedo of 0.183.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> Its rotation period is 6.4 hours.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

In the 1980s Tea was considered as a target for the planned French ''Vesta'' spacecraft.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1985S%26T....69..507B&amp;db_key=AST&amp;data_type=HTML&amp;format=&amp;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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

It came to opposition at apparent magnitude 12.2 on 3 May 2023 and then perihelion on 27 May 2023.<ref name="jpldata"/>

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