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1530 Rantaseppa (1938 SG)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2001530
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459200.5 (2020-Dec-17.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 36 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .1984301024316992 3.5175e-08  
a 2.24888679578922 4.3894e-09 au
q 1.80263995854347 7.9169e-08 au
i 4.421553445663702 3.0223e-06 deg
node 285.7817854459499 4.8118e-05 deg
peri 85.00107742551394 4.8758e-05 deg
M 129.8091846584917 7.1883e-06 deg
tp 2458756.326402235761
(2019-Sep-29.82640224)		 2.4577e-05 TDB
period 1231.827282605659
3.37		 3.6065e-06
9.874e-09		 d
yr
n .292248763348137 8.5563e-10 deg/d
Q 2.695133633034971 5.2604e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2709  
   data-arc span      30075 days (82.34 yr)  
   first obs. used      1938-09-16  
   last obs. used      2021-01-18  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .44653  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2021-Feb-24 00:56:08  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = .807452 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.79472 au 
 T_jup = 3.599 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 13.31   n/a E2021B10  
diameter diameter 5.044 km 0.058 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
rotation period rot_per 3.5258 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2020-October); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Pravec, P.; Wolf, M.; Sarounova, L. (2016) http://www.asu.cas.cz/~ppravec/neo.htm]
[Aznar, A.M. (2017) Minor Planet Bull. 44, 139-141.]
[Behrend, R. (2019) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo albedo 0.400   0.028 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  

1530 Rantaseppa (1938 SG)          Discovered 1938-Sep-16 by Vaisala, Y. at Turku
Independent discovery Sept. 18 by E. Delporte, Uccle, was announced first.
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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