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185 Eunike (A878 EA)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000185
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459000.5 (2020-May-31.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 89 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .1284428909913876 3.1791e-08  
a 2.739787275107037 6.7967e-09 au
q 2.387881076790873 8.7158e-08 au
i 23.23850030022781 3.9488e-06 deg
node 153.7831715315107 9.1665e-06 deg
peri 223.485981320137 1.8381e-05 deg
M 272.6385183027426 1.7442e-05 deg
tp 2459402.467724912761
(2021-Jul-06.96772491)		 8.1035e-05 TDB
period 1656.432310409599
4.54		 6.1638e-06
1.688e-08		 d
yr
n .2173345676352932 8.0873e-10 deg/d
Q 3.0916934734232 7.6697e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      3520  
   data-arc span      49795 days (136.33 yr)  
   first obs. used      1884-07-12  
   last obs. used      2020-11-11  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .40545  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2020-Dec-18 01:51:37  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.42111 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.41478 au 
 T_jup = 3.222 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 7.7   n/a MPO492750 IRAS observations used: 23
diameter diameter 160.464 km 2.016 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
rotation period rot_per 21.797 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2020-October); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2005) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Behrend, R. (2010) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Pilcher, F.; Ruthroff, J.C. (2012) Minor Planet Bull. 39, 13.]
[Hills, K. (2013) Minor Planet Bull. 40, 89-90.]
[Pilcher, F.; Behrend, R.; Bernasconi, L.; Franco, L.; Hills, K.; et al. (2014) Minor Planet Bull. 41, 244-250.]
[Behrend, R. (2020) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo albedo 0.062   0.005 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
B-V BV 0.668   0.040 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=4; phase (min.=18.02, mean=21.23, max.=23.82) deg.
U-B UB 0.331   0.031 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=4; phase (min.=18.02, mean=21.23, max.=23.82) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T C   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 7 color indices
SMASSII spectral type spec_B C   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)

185 Eunike (A878 EA)          Discovered 1878-Mar-01 by Peters, C. H. F. at Clinton
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29
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