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387 Aquitania (1894 AZ)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000387
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2456400.5 (2013-Apr-18.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 74 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .2369721629610584 5.3473e-08  
a 2.739579646240161 8.2806e-09 AU
q 2.090375531866539 1.4589e-07 AU
i 18.13169380316556 6.5427e-06 deg
node 128.298665521981 1.0801e-05 deg
peri 157.3563968717424 1.3968e-05 deg
M 342.9801004449971 7.4512e-06 deg
tp 2456478.803074620283
(2013-Jul-05.30307462)
3.4444e-05 JED
period 1656.244020254279
4.53
7.5092e-06
2.056e-08
d
yr
n .2173592753226847 9.8548e-10 deg/d
Q 3.388783760613783 1.0243e-08 AU
  Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      1391  
   data-arc span      43502 days (119.10 yr)  
   first obs. used      1894-03-07  
   last obs. used      2013-04-14  
   planetary ephem.      DE405  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB405-CPV-2  
   condition code      0  
   fit RMS      .54782  
   data source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2013-Apr-29 12:34:55  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.08423 AU 
 T_jup = 3.239 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 7.41 mag n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6
diameter diameter 100.51 km 2.9 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6
rotation period rot_per 24.144 h n/a Asteroid Lightcurve DataBase (Rev. 2013-May-01) Published Reference List:
[Schober, H.J. (1979) Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 38, 91-99.]
[Harris, A.W.; Young, J.W.; Dockweiler, T.; Gibson, J.; et al. (1992) Icarus 95, 115-147.]
[Chiorny, V.G.; Shevchenko, V.G.; Krugly, Yu.N.; Velichko, F.P.; Gaftonyuk, N.M. (2003) Abstracts of Photometry and Polarimetry of Asteroids: Impact on Collaboration, Kharkiv, 9-10.]
[Chiorny, V.G.; Shevchenko, V.G.; Krugly, Yu.N.; Velichko, F.P.; Gaftonyuk, N.M. (2007) Planet. Space Sci. 55, 986-997.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.1900   0.011 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6
B-V BV .881 mag .021 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=6; phase (min.=7.56, mean=16.93, max.=23.25) deg.
U-B UB .449 mag .030 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=5; phase (min.=7.56, mean=15.66, max.=22.65) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T S   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 7 color indices
SMASSII spectral type spec_B L   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)

387 Aquitania (1894 AZ)          Discovered 1894-Mar-05 by Courty, F. at Bordeaux
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 1894 AZ = 1945 NA = 1948 BG = 1953 EO1 
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