(3908) Nyx Amor
Discovered on 6 August 1980 by H.-E. Schuster at La Silla.
Named for the goddess and personification of the night. She was a daughter of Chaos and had many children by her brother Erebus, who personifies the subterranean darkness. The realm of Nyx was in the far West, beyond the land of Atlas.Naming citation (19990402/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Nyx is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Nyx is 2.07 au from the Sun and 2.84 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 3908 |
| Provisional designation | 1980 PA |
| Orbit class | Amor · near-Earth |
| Diameter | 1.00 km (#17,413 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.230 |
| Rotation period | 4.43 hours |
| Spectral type | V |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 17.45 |
| Orbital period | 2.68 years |
| Semi-major axis | 1.93 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.04 – 2.81 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.459 |
| Inclination | 2.19° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.0564 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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