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106 Dione (A868 TA)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000106
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459000.5 (2020-May-31.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 116 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .1598771248989236 4.0678e-08  
a 3.183027405608183 1.3407e-08 au
q 2.674134135525066 1.2684e-07 au
i 4.576477892933928 4.5327e-06 deg
node 62.0405592419927 5.4858e-05 deg
peri 330.8703420979635 5.6497e-05 deg
M 293.4039168112445 1.5613e-05 deg
tp 2459384.211822193566
(2021-Jun-18.71182219)		 9.1161e-05 TDB
period 2074.239945886299
5.68		 1.3105e-05
3.588e-08		 d
yr
n .1735575484957581 1.0965e-09 deg/d
Q 3.691920675691299 1.555e-08 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2708  
   data-arc span      54513 days (149.25 yr)  
   first obs. used      1871-03-16  
   last obs. used      2020-06-15  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .48799  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2020-Jun-23 15:07:22  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.68166 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 1.74287 au 
 T_jup = 3.174 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 7.5   n/a MPO492749 IRAS observations used: 17
diameter diameter 207.869 km 2.158 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
rotation period rot_per 16.210 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-August); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Pray, D. (2005) Minor Planet Bull. 32, 48-51.]
[Pilcher, F. (2017) Minor Planet Bull. 44, 249-251.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.044   0.008 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
B-V BV 0.743   0.015 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=5; phase (min.=4.26, mean=11.70, max.=19.19) deg.
U-B UB 0.464   0.022 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=5; phase (min.=4.26, mean=11.70, max.=19.19) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T G   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 7 color indices; used ground-based radiometric albedo
SMASSII spectral type spec_B Cgh   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)

106 Dione (A868 TA)          Discovered 1868-Oct-10 by Watson, J. C. at Ann Arbor
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 A868 TA = A902 TA 
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