67 Asia

Asia (minor planet designation 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 Titaness 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 1376.048 days, a semimajor axis of $2.421 AU$, 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 $15.9$ with an amplitude of $0.26$ in magnitude.