{{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}}<ref>Noah Webster (1884) ''A Practical Dictionary of the English Language''</ref> | 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|41|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={{val|56.309|0.396}} km<ref name=JPL-SBDL-67Asia/> | rotation=15.89 hours | spectral_type=S | abs_magnitude=8.28 | albedo=0.255 <ref>[http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/albedo.html Asteroid Data Sets<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217104722/http://www.psi.edu/pds/resource/albedo.html |date=2009-12-17 }}</ref> }}

'''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.<ref name=Schmadel2003/> thumb|a image of a lightcurve image of 67 Asia. 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.<ref name="Platsino1992" /> 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 56&nbsp;km,<ref name=JPL-SBDL-67Asia/> 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.<ref name="Ditteon2007" />

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name=JPL-SBDL-67Asia> {{cite web | title=67 Asia (A861 HA) | website=JPL Solar System Dynamics | url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=67%20Asia | access-date=2026-05-18 }}</ref>

<ref name=Schmadel2003>{{citation | last=Schmadel | first=Lutz D. | title=Dictionary of Minor Planet Names | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWrB1jPCa8AC&pg=PA22 | year=2003 | page=22 | publisher=Springer Science & Business Media | isbn=978-3-540-00238-3 }}</ref>

<ref name=Platsino1992>{{citation | title=Resonant asteroids and the equivalence principle | last1=Plastino | first1=A. R. | last2=Vucetich | first2=H. | journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics | volume=262 | issue=1 | pages=321–325 | date=August 1992 | bibcode=1992A&A...262..321P }}</ref>

<ref name=Ditteon2007>{{Citation | first1=Richard | last1=Ditteon | first2=Scot | last2=Hawkins | title=Asteroid Lightcurve Analysis at the Oakley Observatory – October–November 2006 | journal=The Minor Planet Bulletin | date=September 2007 | volume=34 | issue=3 | pages=59–64 | issn=1052-8091 | postscript=. | bibcode=2007MPBu...34...59D }}</ref>

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