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100 Hekate
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000100
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Orbit Diagram
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Orbit Viewer applet originally written and kindly provided by Osamu Ajiki (AstroArts), and further modified by Ron Baalke (JPL).


Orbital Elements at Epoch 2456400.5 (2013-Apr-18.0) TDB
Reference: MPO256861 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e 0.1681379 n/a  
a 3.0876754 n/a AU
q 2.5685201 n/a AU
i 6.43012 n/a deg
node 127.20831 n/a deg
peri 185.02936 n/a deg
M 206.48234 n/a deg
tp 2457245.5875619
(2015-Aug-11.08756190)		 n/a JED
period 1981.7363181
5.43		 n/a
n/a		 d
yr
n 0.18165888 n/a deg/d
Q 3.6068307 n/a AU
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      1330  
   first obs. used      1871-??-??  
   last obs. used      2013-03-15  
   # oppositions      67  
   planetary ephem.      DE403  
   condition code      0  
   fit RMS      0.54  
   data source      MPC:mpn  
   producer      MPCLINUX  

Additional Information
 T_jup = 3.194 

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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 7.67 mag n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 23
diameter diameter 88.66 km 2.0 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 23
rotation period rot_per 27.066 h n/a Asteroid Lightcurve DataBase (Rev. 2013-May-01) Published Reference List:
[Galad, A.; Vilagi, J.; Kornos, L.; Gajdos, S. (2009) Minor Planet Bul. 36, 116-118.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.1922   0.009 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 23
B-V BV .838 mag .025 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=3; phase (min.=2.98, mean=5.97, max.=11.64) deg.
U-B UB .363 mag .049 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=3; phase (min.=2.98, mean=5.97, max.=11.64) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T S   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 2 color indices
SMASSII spectral type spec_B S   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 based on a high-resolution spectrum by Xu et al. (1995) or Bus and Binzel (2002)

100 Hekate          Discovered 1868-Jul-11 by Watson, J. C. at Ann Arbor
Independent discovery July 18 by C. Wolf, Paris, was announced first.
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

Alternate Designations
 1955 QA 
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