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2102 Tantalus (1975 YA)
Classification: Apollo [NEO, PHA]          SPK-ID: 2002102
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459000.5 (2020-May-31.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 197 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .2991482374821564 2.7529e-08  
a 1.290150777367857 1.051e-09 au
q .9042044462320286 3.5764e-08 au
i 64.00699255203048 1.1627e-05 deg
node 94.3624922974229 1.6791e-06 deg
peri 61.54106402764132 1.0069e-05 deg
M 81.98646837327878 7.7757e-06 deg
tp 2458878.601374689255
(2020-Jan-30.10137469)		 1.1548e-05 TDB
period 535.2530238535163
1.47		 6.5403e-07
1.791e-09		 d
yr
n .6725791055008067 8.2183e-10 deg/d
Q 1.676097108503685 1.3654e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      1273  
   # delay obs. used      1  
   # Doppler obs. used      0  
   data-arc span      16219 days (44.41 yr)  
   first obs. used      1975-12-30  
   last obs. used      2020-05-26  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .30517  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2020-May-27 07:01:44  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = .0434654 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 3.76209 au 
 T_jup = 4.450 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 16.0   n/a MPO302073  
diameter diameter 1.649 km 0.045 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[neos] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...814..117N)  
rotation period rot_per 2.384 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-August); Warner et al., 2009 Result based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so.
Published Reference List:
[Pravec, P.; Wolf, M.; Sarounova, L.; Mottola, S.; et al. (1997) Icarus 130, 275-286.]
[Warner, B.D. (2015) Minor Planet Bull. 42, 79-83.]
[Vaduvescu, O.; Aznar Macias, A.; Tudor, V.; Predatu, M.; et al. (2017) Earth, Moon, and Planets 120, 41-100.]
[Warner, B.D. (2017) Minor Planet Bull. 44, 223-237.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.245   0.031 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[neos] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...814..117N)  
SMASSII spectral type spec_B Q   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)

2102 Tantalus (1975 YA)          Discovered 1975-Dec-27 by Kowal, C. at Palomar
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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