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297 Caecilia
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000297
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 35 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .1416752625843223 4.1355e-08  
a 3.168825140044889 1.5862e-08 au
q 2.719881006245227 1.3395e-07 au
i 7.544388899821752 4.6435e-06 deg
node 331.9997439956632 3.138e-05 deg
peri 353.446562035028 3.4761e-05 deg
M 292.6374696201029 1.6942e-05 deg
tp 2458986.033153733268
(2020-May-16.53315373)		 9.8131e-05 TDB
period 2060.372948599866
5.64		 1.547e-05
4.235e-08		 d
yr
n .1747256486960962 1.3119e-09 deg/d
Q 3.61776927384455 1.8109e-08 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2736  
   data-arc span      43574 days (119.30 yr)  
   first obs. used      1900-05-02  
   last obs. used      2019-08-20  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .46182  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Sep-23 19:07:14  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.70739 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 1.72182 au 
 T_jup = 3.174 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 9.1   n/a MPO435697  
diameter diameter 39.48 km 1.8 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6
rotation period rot_per 4.163 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2004) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Cooney, W.R. (2005) Minor Planet Bull. 32, 15-16.]
[Behrend, R. (2006) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Behrend, R. (2009) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) (2011) http://www.minorplanetobserver.com/DATA/submissions_results.htm]
[Hanus, J.; Durech, J.; Broz, M.; Marciniak, A.; et al. (2013) Astron. Astrophys. 551, A67.]
[Behrend, R. (2014) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Behrend, R. (2016) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo albedo 0.1796   0.018 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 6

297 Caecilia          Discovered 1890-Sep-09 by Charlois, A. at Nice
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 1935 PB = 1947 SB = 1955 BK1 = A924 RA 
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