Maja is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the central asteroid … See more

In the Tholen classification, Maja is a carbonaceous C-type asteroid, while in the SMASS classification it is a "hydrated" carbonaceous subtype (Ch).
Several rotational lightcurves of Maja have been obtai… See more

This minor planet was named by Harvard's former president, J. Quincy, after Maia, one of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades in Greek mythology. She is the mother of Hermes (Mercury) and the daughter of Atlas and Pleione. … See more

At present, Maja has not been visited by any spacecraft. As of 1988, mission planning for the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft included a flyby of Maja while leaving the inner solar system in March 1997, however due to dela… See more

• Disc-Integrated Radar Properties of Main-Belt Asteroids, JPL, Magri (2004)
• Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine)… See more