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12422 (1995 US8)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2012422
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2456400.5 (2013-Apr-18.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 1 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .086820617458716 5.9087e-08  
a 2.40138765077383 2.6748e-08 AU
q 2.19289769217591 1.4835e-07 AU
i 12.09546311464963 8.0352e-06 deg
node 69.41899456608206 3.3061e-05 deg
peri 212.8767500970675 7.113e-05 deg
M 2.117751649516178 6.9556e-05 deg
tp 2456392.504155046397
(2013-Apr-10.00415505)
0.00026254 JED
period 1359.226509848126
3.72
2.271e-05
6.218e-08
d
yr
n .2648565175794172 4.4252e-09 deg/d
Q 2.609877609371749 2.9071e-08 AU
  Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      896  
   data-arc span      8363 days (22.90 yr)  
   first obs. used      1990-05-15  
   last obs. used      2013-04-07  
   planetary ephem.      DE405  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB405-CPV-2  
   condition code      0  
   fit RMS      .4991  
   data source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2013-Apr-29 13:48:30  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.18576 AU 
 T_jup = 3.490 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 13.0 mag n/a PDS3 (MPC 36719)  
rotation period rot_per 3.4 h n/a Asteroid Lightcurve DataBase (Rev. 2013-May-01) Result based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so.
Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2005) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]

12422 (1995 US8)          Discovered 1995-Oct-27 by Ueda, S., Kaneda, H. at Kushiro (399)
Reference: 19991123/Numbers.arcLast Updated: 2004-04-19

Alternate Designations
 1995 US8 = 1990 JK1 = 1990 KO1 
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