453 Tea is an S-type asteroid[1] belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt. Its diameter is about 21 km and it has an albedo of 0.183 [2]. Its rotation period is 6.4 hours[3].
In the 1980s Tea was considered as a target for the planned French Vesta spacecraft [4]. The spacecraft was not built.
Tea was discovered by Auguste Charlois on February 22, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FA.
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