+ View the NASA Portal + Near-Earth Object (NEO) Program Search JPL JPL Small-Body Database Browser Search: [ help ]   796 Sarita (1914 VH) Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000796 [ Ephemeris | Orbit Diagram | Orbital Elements | Physical Parameters | Discovery Circumstances ] [ show orbit diagram ] Orbital Elements at Epoch 2456400.5 (2013-Apr-18.0) TDB Reference: JPL 38 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)  Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units  e .3183464113007732 8.1638e-08   a 2.636694076700288 9.2941e-09 AU q 1.797311979684746 2.1532e-07 AU i 19.04132956099038 9.9311e-06 deg node 33.31462267698524 2.0172e-05 deg peri 329.7216998911289 2.205e-05 deg M 24.34713212039005 1.0334e-05 deg tp 2456294.737099191818 (2013-Jan-02.23709919) 4.4745e-05 JED period 1563.824605817084 4.28 8.2685e-06 2.264e-08 d yr n .2302048443673792 1.2172e-09 deg/d Q 3.476076173715831 1.2253e-08 AU   Orbit Determination Parameters    # obs. used (total)      1018      data-arc span      35798 days (98.01 yr)      first obs. used      1914-10-16      last obs. used      2012-10-19      planetary ephem.      DE405      SB-pert. ephem.      SB405-CPV-2      condition code      0      fit RMS      .61278      data source      ORB      producer      Otto Matic      solution date      2012-Nov-08 13:20:47   Additional Information  Earth MOID = .818576 AU   T_jup = 3.249  [ show covariance matrix ] [ Ephemeris | Orbit Diagram | Orbital Elements | Physical Parameters | Discovery Circumstances ] Physical Parameter Table Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes absolute magnitude H 9.12 mag n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6 diameter diameter 44.96 km 1.5 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6 rotation period rot_per 8.1755 h n/a Asteroid Lightcurve DataBase (Rev. 2013-May-01) Published Reference List: [Behrend, R. (2004) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html] geometric albedo albedo 0.1966   0.013 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6 B-V BV .715 mag .015 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=3; phase (min.=16.16, mean=20.57, max.=27.90) deg. U-B UB .248 mag .043 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=3; phase (min.=16.16, mean=20.57, max.=27.90) deg. Tholen spectral type spec_T XD   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 2 color indices SMASSII spectral type spec_B X   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) 796 Sarita (1914 VH)          Discovered 1914-Oct-15 by Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg (024) Reference: DISCOVERY.DB Last Updated: 2003-08-29 Alternate Designations  1914 VH = 1930 HR = 1960 HE  [ Ephemeris | Orbit Diagram | Orbital Elements | Physical Parameters | Discovery Circumstances ] 2013-May-25 19:28 UT (server date/time)   Site Manager:   Donald K. Yeomans Webmaster:   Alan B. Chamberlin