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| Orbit Diagram
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This applet is provided as a 3D orbit visualization tool.
The applet was implemented using 2-body methods,
and hence should not be used for determining accurate long-term trajectories
(over several years or decades) or planetary encounter circumstances.
For accurate long-term ephemerides, please instead use our Horizons system. |
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Additional Notes: the orbits shown in the applet are color coded. The planets are white lines, and the asteroid/comet is a blue line. The bright white line indicates the portion of the orbit that is above the ecliptic plane, and the darker portion is below the ecliptic plane. Likewise for the asteroid/comet orbit, the light blue indicates the portion above the ecliptic plane, and the dark blue the portion below the ecliptic plane.
Orbit Viewer applet originally written and kindly provided by
Osamu Ajiki (AstroArts),
and further modified by
Ron Baalke (JPL).
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2456400.5 (2013-Apr-18.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 8 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
| Element | Value | Uncertainty (1-sigma) | Units |
| e | .08527136626104055 | 0.00029952 | |
| a | 43.73377761208951 | 0.016698 | AU |
| q | 40.00453864335013 | 0.0030588 | AU |
| i | .5629295394262861 | 9.7154e-05 | deg |
| node | 84.5813820011617 | 0.021299 | deg |
| peri | 198.4970387719993 | 0.076143 | deg |
| M | 53.5444778311045 | 0.092459 | deg |
| tp | 2440688.332434667946
(1970-Apr-11.83243467) | 18.546 | JED |
| period | 105638.9109136796
289.22 | 60.499
0.1656 | d
yr |
| n | .003407835208507268 | 1.9517e-06 | deg/d |
| Q | 47.46301658082888 | 0.018121 | AU |
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Additional Information
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Physical Parameter Table
| Parameter |
Symbol |
Value |
Units |
Sigma |
Reference |
Notes |
| absolute magnitude |
H |
5.8423 |
mag |
.30316 |
8 |
autocmod 2.5b |
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| 66652 Borasisi | Discovered 1999 Sept. 8 by C. A. Trujillo, J. X. Luu and D. C. Jewitt at Mauna Kea. |
| Also named is (66652) I Pabu, discovered 2003 Apr. 23 by K. Noll, D. Stephens, W. Grundy and colleagues using the Hubble Space Telescope. Borasisi and Pabu are the mythical personifications of the sun and moon in the fictional cosmogony of Bokononism described in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle: "Borasisi, the sun, held Pabu, the moon, in his arms and hoped that Pabu would bear him a fiery child. But poor Pabu gave birth to children that were cold, that did not burn... Then poor Pabu herself was cast away, and she went to live with her favorite child, which was Earth." |
| NOTE: some special characters may not display properly (any characters within {} are an attempt to place the proper accent above a character) |
| Reference: 20070926/MPCPages.arc | Last Updated: 2007-09-30 |
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