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1565 Lemaitre (1948 WA)
Classification: Mars-crossing Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2001565
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459000.5 (2020-May-31.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 28 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .3482277664653322 3.4521e-08  
a 2.392322166406137 7.1843e-09 au
q 1.559249161733024 8.3622e-08 au
i 21.49565913695765 4.1493e-06 deg
node 261.1476024893393 1.2238e-05 deg
peri 116.3963928183059 1.369e-05 deg
M 142.4977595281273 7.3629e-06 deg
tp 2458465.525035473602
(2018-Dec-13.02503547)		 2.6517e-05 TDB
period 1351.536949544024
3.70		 6.0882e-06
1.667e-08		 d
yr
n .2663634169391042 1.1999e-09 deg/d
Q 3.225395171079251 9.6861e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2544  
   data-arc span      26086 days (71.42 yr)  
   first obs. used      1948-11-25  
   last obs. used      2020-04-27  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .34546  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2020-May-20 01:26:41  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = .67242 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.55593 au 
 T_jup = 3.358 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 12.6   n/a MPO458843  
diameter diameter 7.949 km 1.558 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...814..117N)  
rotation period rot_per 11.403 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-August); Warner et al., 2009 Result based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so.
Published Reference List:
[Warner, B.D.; Vander Haagen, G. (2008) Minor Planet Bull. 35, 52.]
[Skiff, B.A.; McLelland, K.P.; Sanborn, J.J.; Pravec, P.; Koehn, B.W. (2019) Minor Plantet Bull. 46, 238-265.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.239   0.096 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...814..117N)  
SMASSII spectral type spec_B Sq   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)

1565 Lemaitre (1948 WA)          Discovered 1948-Nov-25 by Arend, S. at Uccle
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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