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1249 Rutherfordia (1932 VB)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2001249
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 29 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .07655269031669684 3.919e-08  
a 2.224457141293827 5.8158e-09 au
q 2.054168962633596 8.8386e-08 au
i 4.875737730348943 4.0506e-06 deg
node 258.9980709277352 4.2719e-05 deg
peri 223.1872744519196 4.9042e-05 deg
M 328.60374811562 2.4748e-05 deg
tp 2458706.184134392347
(2019-Aug-10.68413439)		 8.3408e-05 TDB
period 1211.809884866334
3.32		 4.7524e-06
1.301e-08		 d
yr
n .297076302558556 1.1651e-09 deg/d
Q 2.394745319954058 6.2611e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2472  
   data-arc span      31569 days (86.43 yr)  
   first obs. used      1932-11-04  
   last obs. used      2019-04-11  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .44065  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Jul-12 18:06:33  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.07352 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.66173 au 
 T_jup = 3.638 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 11.54   n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6
diameter diameter 13.063 km 0.097 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
rotation period rot_per 18.242 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2001) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Behrend, R. (2004) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Kryszczynska, A.; Colas, F.; Polinska, M.; Hirsch, R.; et al. (2012) Astron. Astrophys. 546, A72.]
[Hanus, J.; Durech, J.; Broz, M.; Marciniak, A.; et al. (2013) Astron. Astrophys. 551, A67.]
[Aznar Macias, A.; Carreno Garcerain, A.; Arce Masego, E.; Brines Rodriques, P.; et al. (2016) Minor Planet Bull. 43, 257-263.]
[Behrend, R. (2018) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo albedo 0.251   0.058 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
B-V BV 0.883   0.020 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=1; phase=5.96 deg.
U-B UB 0.484   0.032 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=1; phase=5.96 deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T S   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 4 color indices

1249 Rutherfordia (1932 VB)          Discovered 1932-Nov-04 by Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 1932 VB = 1925 SF = 1942 XV 
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