453 Tea[a] is an S-type asteroid[4] belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt.
[3] Its diameter is about 21 km and it has an albedo of 0.183.
[6] In the 1980s Tea was considered as a target for the planned French Vesta spacecraft.
Tea was discovered by Auguste Charlois on February 22, 1900.
[8] It came to opposition at apparent magnitude 12.2 on 3 May 2023 and then perihelion on 27 May 2023.