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1 Ceres (A801 AA)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000001
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459200.5 (2020-Dec-17.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 48 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .07816842531792309 4.8002e-12  
a 2.766089103541419 1.0226e-11 au
q 2.54986827402852 1.9306e-11 au
i 10.58789948638167 4.6125e-09 deg
node 80.2723580108419 6.1797e-08 deg
peri 73.72488948128135 6.6164e-08 deg
M 205.5454164923478 7.1675e-09 deg
tp 2459921.434776551943
(2022-Dec-07.93477655)		 3.1574e-08 TDB
period 1680.341972796432
4.60		 9.3182e-09
2.551e-11		 d
yr
n .2142421041836422 1.1881e-12 deg/d
Q 2.982309933054317 1.1025e-11 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      1075  
   # delay obs. used      60  
   # Doppler obs. used      0  
   data-arc span      9520 days (26.06 yr)  
   first obs. used      1995-01-05  
   last obs. used      2021-01-28  
   planetary ephem.      DE441  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB441-N373  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .43153  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Davide Farnocchia  
   solution date      2021-Apr-13 11:04:44  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.58537 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.09301 au 
 T_jup = 3.310 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 3.53   n/a E2021B10 IRAS observations used: 15
magnitude slope G 0.12   n/a PDS3 (MPC 17257) Fit
diameter diameter 939.4 km 0.2 Nature vol. 537, pp515-517 (22 September 2016)  
extent extent 964.4 x 964.2 x 891.8 km 0.2 x 0.2 x 0.2 Nature vol. 537, pp515-517 (22 September 2016) fit w.r.t. center of mass and in body-fixed frame
GM GM 62.6284 km^3/s^2 0.0009 Nature vol. 537, pp515-517 (22 September 2016)  
bulk density density 2.162 g/cm^3 0.008 Nature vol. 537, pp515-517 (22 September 2016)  
rotation period rot_per 9.074170 h 0.000001 Nature vol. 537, pp515-517 (22 September 2016) derived from published value: 952.1532 +/- 0.0001 deg./day
pole direction pole 291.421/66.758   0.007/0.002 Nature vol. 537, pp515-517 (22 September 2016)  
geometric albedo albedo 0.090   0.003 Li et al. (2006) Icarus v182:pp143-160 V-band geometric albedo
B-V BV 0.713   0.014 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=52; phase (min.=1.47, mean=11.85, max.=22.59) deg.
U-B UB 0.426   0.026 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=52; phase (min.=1.47, mean=12.16, max.=22.59) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T G   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 7 color indices; used ground-based radiometric albedo
SMASSII spectral type spec_B C   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)

1 Ceres (A801 AA)          Discovered 1801-Jan-01 by Piazzi, G. at Palermo
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 A801 AA = 1943 XB = A899 OF 
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