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150 Nuwa
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000150
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 80 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .123166289349411 3.1127e-08  
a 2.98320086261608 1.0099e-08 au
q 2.615771081983696 9.3541e-08 au
i 2.201283117571136 3.8078e-06 deg
node 206.1451983691427 9.0984e-05 deg
peri 153.387282547997 9.2406e-05 deg
M 327.3277967816921 1.7163e-05 deg
tp 2458771.304021484260
(2019-Oct-14.80402148)		 9.0063e-05 TDB
period 1882.011057640521
5.15		 9.5571e-06
2.617e-08		 d
yr
n .1912847422115215 9.7137e-10 deg/d
Q 3.350630643248465 1.1343e-08 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      3012  
   data-arc span      44001 days (120.47 yr)  
   first obs. used      1899-05-07  
   last obs. used      2019-10-26  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .49081  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Nov-07 01:50:08  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.61167 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.09949 au 
 T_jup = 3.246 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 8.23   n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 19
diameter diameter 119.128 km 1.869 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
rotation period rot_per 8.1347 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Di Martino, M. (1984) Icarus 60, 541-546.]
[Armstrong, J.C.; Nellermoe, B.L.; Reitzler, L.E. (1996) I.A.P.P.P. Comm. 63, 59-68.]
[Blanco, C.; Di Martino, M.; De Sanctis, G.; Riccioli, D. (1996) Planet. Space Sci. 44, 93-106.]
[Behrend, R. (2005) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Behrend, R. (2006) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Behrend, R. (2011) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Pilcher, F. (2011) Minor Planet Bull. 38, 156-158.]
[Hanus, J.; Durech, J.; Oszkiewicz, D.A.; Behrend, R.; et al. (2016) Astron. Astrophys. 586, A108.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.052   0.007 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
B-V BV 0.706   0.065 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=3; phase (min.=2.26, mean=6.69, max.=9.49) deg.
U-B UB 0.275   0.038 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=3; phase (min.=2.26, mean=6.69, max.=9.49) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T CX   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 2 color indices
SMASSII spectral type spec_B Cb   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)

150 Nuwa          Discovered 1875-Oct-18 by Watson, J. C. at Ann Arbor
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 2002 JR70 = A908 AL 
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