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60 Echo
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000060
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2456400.5 (2013-Apr-18.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 79 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .1840954184878525 4.9515e-08  
a 2.393292254429024 4.3365e-09 AU
q 1.952698115286177 1.1905e-07 AU
i 3.601070834700729 5.4712e-06 deg
node 191.6330634761938 9.4267e-05 deg
peri 270.9212553171822 9.5099e-05 deg
M 342.9579883093443 1.3913e-05 deg
tp 2456464.519221392266
(2013-Jun-21.01922139)
5.2287e-05 JED
period 1352.359106398953
3.70
3.6756e-06
1.006e-08
d
yr
n .2662014832425715 7.2352e-10 deg/d
Q 2.833886393571871 5.1349e-09 AU
  Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      1406  
   data-arc span      55561 days (152.12 yr)  
   first obs. used      1861-01-05  
   last obs. used      2013-02-18  
   planetary ephem.      DE405  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB405-CPV-2  
   condition code      0  
   fit RMS      .6362  
   data source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2013-Mar-29 15:03:32  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = .97287 AU 
 T_jup = 3.505 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 8.21 mag n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6
magnitude slope G 0.27   n/a PDS3 (MPC 17257) Fit
diameter diameter 60.20 km 1.8 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6
rotation period rot_per 25.208 h n/a Asteroid Lightcurve DataBase (Rev. 2013-May-01) Published Reference List:
[Florence, W.B.; Zeigler, K.W. (1984) Minor Planet Bul. 11, 33-34.]
[Zeigler, K.W.; Florence, W.B. (1985) Icarus 62, 512-517.]
[Harris, A.W.; Young, J.W.; Bowell, E.; Martin, L.J.; et al. (1989) Icarus 77, 171-186.]
[Michalowski, T. (1993) Icarus 106, 563-572.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.2535   0.016 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6
B-V BV .854 mag .019 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=6; phase (min.=2.44, mean=9.26, max.=12.36) deg.
U-B UB .452 mag .027 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=6; phase (min.=2.44, mean=9.26, max.=12.36) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T S   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 7 color indices; used ground-based radiometric albedo
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)

60 Echo          Discovered 1860-Sep-14 by Ferguson, J. at Washington
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

Alternate Designations
 A899 EB 
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