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596 Scheila (1906 UA)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000596
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2456400.5 (2013-Apr-18.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 42 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .1648818060046769 6.1699e-08  
a 2.927163073063887 1.6602e-08 AU
q 2.444527139106913 1.8482e-07 AU
i 14.66173620651776 5.4253e-06 deg
node 70.70313628059198 1.6149e-05 deg
peri 175.6515121624406 2.2674e-05 deg
M 65.84669271131077 1.5154e-05 deg
tp 2456065.919774713521
(2012-May-18.41977471)
7.559e-05 JED
period 1829.232056212937
5.01
1.5562e-05
4.261e-08
d
yr
n .1968038985416147 1.6743e-09 deg/d
Q 3.409799007020861 1.934e-08 AU
  Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2796  
   data-arc span      38866 days (106.41 yr)  
   first obs. used      1906-03-27  
   last obs. used      2012-08-23  
   planetary ephem.      DE405  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB405-CPV-2  
   condition code      0  
   fit RMS      .40618  
   data source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2013-Mar-29 15:03:15  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.43137 AU 
 T_jup = 3.209 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 8.90 mag n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 21
diameter diameter 113.34 km 2.3 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 21
rotation period rot_per 15.851 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. (2004) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Warner, B.D. (2006) Minor Planet Bul. 33, 58-62.]
[Warner, B.D. (2011) Minor Planet Bul. 38, 96-101.]
[Behrend, R. (2011) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo albedo 0.0379   0.002 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 21
B-V BV .714 mag .033 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=2; phase (min.=5.96, mean=6.93, max.=7.91) deg.
U-B UB .177 mag .039 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=2; phase (min.=5.96, mean=6.93, max.=7.91) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T PCD   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 2 color indices; used ground-based radiometric albedo
SMASSII spectral type spec_B T   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)

596 Scheila (1906 UA)          Discovered 1906-Feb-21 by Kopff, A. at Heidelberg (024)
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 1906 UA = 1949 WT 
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