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1041 Asta (1925 FA)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2001041
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 33 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .1441137369402654 4.6612e-08  
a 3.071492674735711 1.4036e-08 au
q 2.628848387394896 1.4765e-07 au
i 13.93589127646506 4.9623e-06 deg
node 60.00210989597161 1.6183e-05 deg
peri 344.1709007578929 2.062e-05 deg
M 313.2321595619597 1.3154e-05 deg
tp 2458855.927391493319
(2020-Jan-07.42739149)		 7.2138e-05 TDB
period 1966.177186637871
5.38		 1.3477e-05
3.69e-08		 d
yr
n .1830964179864144 1.255e-09 deg/d
Q 3.514136962076525 1.6058e-08 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2439  
   data-arc span      41292 days (113.05 yr)  
   first obs. used      1906-11-09  
   last obs. used      2019-11-28  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .42026  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Dec-03 20:16:13  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.64111 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 1.88046 au 
 T_jup = 3.170 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 10.1   n/a MPO265961  
diameter diameter 60.571 km 0.199 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
rotation period rot_per 7.554 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2010) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo albedo 0.047   0.006 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
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)

1041 Asta (1925 FA)          Discovered 1925-Mar-22 by Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 1925 FA = 1938 SJ1 = 1949 UQ = 1949 UX = 1951 CQ1 = 1956 AT = A906 VA = A917 YB 
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