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101 Helena
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000101
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 102 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .140233086495617 4.5626e-08  
a 2.583800893237053 7.7479e-09 au
q 2.221466519088289 1.1723e-07 au
i 10.19447281486906 4.9735e-06 deg
node 343.3897129854399 2.5576e-05 deg
peri 348.3528867344569 3.027e-05 deg
M 113.2828410168788 1.7726e-05 deg
tp 2458123.137142761846
(2018-Jan-04.63714276)		 7.4063e-05 TDB
period 1517.004932636976
4.15		 6.8234e-06
1.868e-08		 d
yr
n .237309709582961 1.0674e-09 deg/d
Q 2.946135267385817 8.8344e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      1958  
   data-arc span      54316 days (148.71 yr)  
   first obs. used      1871-03-22  
   last obs. used      2019-12-07  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .46479  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Dec-13 20:37:03  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.21145 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.42025 au 
 T_jup = 3.387 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 8.2   n/a MPO502153 IRAS observations used: 15
magnitude slope G 0.35   n/a PDS3 (MPC 17257) Fit
diameter diameter 65.84 km 1.3 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 15
rotation period rot_per 23.080 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Lagerkvist, C.-I.; Rickman, H. (1981) Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 45, 177-179.]
[Harris, A.W.; Young, J.W. (1989) Icarus 81, 314-364.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.1898   0.008 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 15
B-V BV 0.854   0.020 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=12; phase (min.=3.93, mean=10.53, max.=24.72) deg.
U-B UB 0.426   0.033 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=12; phase (min.=3.93, mean=10.53, max.=24.72) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T S   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 7 color indices; used ground-based radiometric albedo
SMASSII spectral type spec_B S   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)

101 Helena          Discovered 1868-Aug-15 by Watson, J. C. at Ann Arbor
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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