(66) Pestle

(66) Maja is an asteroid belonging to the asteroid belt discovered by Horace Parnell Tuttle on April 9, 1861 from the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, United States. It is named after Maya, a goddess from Greek mythology.

Orbital characteristics

Maja orbits at an average distance from the Sun of 2,646 AU, being able to get as close as 2,195 AU and as far as 3,098 AU. She has an orbital inclination of 3.047° and an eccentricity of 0.1706. It takes 1,572 days to complete one orbit around the Sun.