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1490 Limpopo (1936 LB)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2001490
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 36 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .1548148137081829 3.7849e-08  
a 2.353555845901135 6.4219e-09 au
q 1.989190536066146 9.009e-08 au
i 10.02149206865262 4.298e-06 deg
node 254.2661219686836 2.3836e-05 deg
peri 90.56121195158265 2.7707e-05 deg
M 282.6464273414357 1.3912e-05 deg
tp 2458883.875999353966
(2020-Feb-04.37599935)		 5.1243e-05 TDB
period 1318.8189796704
3.61		 5.3978e-06
1.478e-08		 d
yr
n .2729715037085464 1.1172e-09 deg/d
Q 2.717921155736124 7.4161e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2118  
   data-arc span      32459 days (88.87 yr)  
   first obs. used      1931-01-16  
   last obs. used      2019-11-29  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .43747  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Dec-13 21:01:15  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.01141 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.72177 au 
 T_jup = 3.519 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 12.1   n/a MPO435710  
diameter diameter 14.844 km 0.112 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
rotation period rot_per 6.647 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2005) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Sada, P.V. (2006) Minor Planet Bull. 33, 78-79.]
[Hanus, J.; Durech, J.; Broz, M.; Marciniak, A.; et al. (2013) Astron. Astrophys. 551, A67.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.068   0.011 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
SMASSII spectral type spec_B Xc   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)

1490 Limpopo (1936 LB)          Discovered 1936-Jun-14 by Jackson, C. at Johannesburg (UO)
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

Alternate Designations
 1936 LB = 1931 BL = 1937 WJ = 1937 YK = 1947 ND = 1965 OD 
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