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95 Arethusa
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000095
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2456400.5 (2013-Apr-18.0) TDB
Reference: MPO256861 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e 0.1518140 n/a  
a 3.0689571 n/a AU
q 2.6030464 n/a AU
i 13.00360 n/a deg
node 243.11424 n/a deg
peri 154.99969 n/a deg
M 28.97146 n/a deg
tp 2456242.4652661
(2012-Nov-10.96526610)
n/a JED
period 1963.7430841
5.38
n/a
n/a
d
yr
n 0.18332337 n/a deg/d
Q 3.5348678 n/a AU
  Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      1015  
   first obs. used      1872-??-??  
   last obs. used      2013-03-14  
   # oppositions      56  
   planetary ephem.      DE403  
   condition code      0  
   fit RMS      0.59  
   data source      MPC:mpn  
   producer      MPCLINUX  

Additional Information
 T_jup = 3.175 

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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 7.84 mag n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 21
diameter diameter 136.04 km 10.1 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 21
rotation period rot_per 8.705 h n/a Asteroid Lightcurve DataBase (Rev. 2013-May-01) Published Reference List:
[Carlsson, M.; Lagerkvist, C.-I. (1981) Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 45, 1-4.]
[Harris, A.W.; Young, J.W. (1983) Icarus 54, 59-109.]
[Behrend, R. (2006) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Durech, J.; Kaasalainen, M.; Herald, D.; Dunham, D.; et al. (2011) Icarus 214, 652-670.]
[Alton, K.B.(2013) Minor Planet Bul. 40, 87-88.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.0698   0.012 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 21
B-V BV .711 mag .018 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=6; phase (min.=4.61, mean=12.77, max.=20.53) deg.
U-B UB .374 mag .049 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=7; phase (min.=4.61, mean=11.82, max.=20.53) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T C   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 7 color indices; used ground-based radiometric albedo
SMASSII spectral type spec_B Ch   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)

95 Arethusa          Discovered 1867-Nov-23 by Luther, R. at Dusseldorf
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29
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