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1484 Postrema (1938 HC)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2001484
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459000.5 (2020-May-31.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 30 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .2039039852431036 4.95e-08  
a 2.739836533880186 1.1401e-08 au
q 2.181172945707364 1.3766e-07 au
i 17.29904067090831 5.067e-06 deg
node 72.76329421863683 1.528e-05 deg
peri 127.0394626790802 1.8748e-05 deg
M 51.41036089046526 1.1475e-05 deg
tp 2458763.944223713345
(2019-Oct-07.44422371)		 5.2201e-05 TDB
period 1656.476982230053
4.54		 1.0339e-05
2.831e-08		 d
yr
n .2173287065633387 1.3565e-09 deg/d
Q 3.298500122053007 1.3726e-08 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2106  
   data-arc span      31494 days (86.23 yr)  
   first obs. used      1933-02-18  
   last obs. used      2019-05-12  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .40044  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-May-29 19:23:27  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.21822 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 1.82456 au 
 T_jup = 3.256 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 10.9   n/a MPO384761  
diameter diameter 40.871 km 0.279 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
rotation period rot_per 12.1923 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-August); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2006) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Julian, W.M. (2006) Minor Planet Bull. 33, 103-104.]
[Durech, J.; Hanus, J.; Oszkiewsicz, D.; Vanco, R. (2016) Astron. Astrophys. 587, A48.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.015   0.009 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
SMASSII spectral type spec_B B   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)

1484 Postrema (1938 HC)          Discovered 1938-Apr-29 by Neujmin, G. at Simeis
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 1938 HC = 1933 DH = A911 KC 
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