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1148 Rarahu (1929 NA)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2001148
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2456400.5 (2013-Apr-18.0) TDB
Reference: MPO250205 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e 0.1124259 n/a  
a 3.0159460 n/a AU
q 2.6768756 n/a AU
i 10.84842 n/a deg
node 145.52991 n/a deg
peri 174.25258 n/a deg
M 337.89473 n/a deg
tp 2456517.9700330
(2013-Aug-13.47003300)
n/a JED
period 1913.0828027
5.24
n/a
n/a
d
yr
n 0.18817795 n/a deg/d
Q 3.3550164 n/a AU
  Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      1162  
   first obs. used      1929-??-??  
   last obs. used      2012-08-04  
   # oppositions      32  
   planetary ephem.      DE403  
   condition code      0  
   fit RMS      0.59  
   data source      MPC:mpn  
   producer      MPCLINUX  

Additional Information
 T_jup = 3.211 

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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 10.15 mag n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 3
diameter diameter 33.23 km 2.9 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 3
rotation period rot_per 6.5447 h n/a Asteroid Lightcurve DataBase (Rev. 2013-May-01) Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2002) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Behrend, R. (2007) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Hanus, J.; Durech, J.; Broz, M.; Warner, B.D.; et al. (2011) Astron. Astrophys. 530, A134.]
[Behrend, R. (2011) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo albedo 0.1393   0.028 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 3
B-V BV .868 mag .013 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=3; phase (min.=2.65, mean=8.27, max.=15.33) deg.
U-B UB .444 mag .022 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=2; phase (min.=2.65, mean=4.74, max.=6.84) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T S   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 4 color indices; used ground-based radiometric albedo
SMASSII spectral type spec_B K   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)

1148 Rarahu (1929 NA)          Discovered 1929-Jul-05 by Deutsch, A. at Simeis (094)
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

Alternate Designations
 1929 NA = A924 OA 
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