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521 Brixia (A904 AE)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000521
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459000.5 (2020-May-31.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 83 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .2796272133413941 2.9063e-08  
a 2.744848630825996 6.8691e-09 au
q 1.977314257144182 7.8399e-08 au
i 10.59382719207189 3.9744e-06 deg
node 89.64884006795883 1.4649e-05 deg
peri 315.9180195896837 1.619e-05 deg
M 253.1310941582477 8.6954e-06 deg
tp 2459493.588516521965
(2021-Oct-06.08851652)		 4.1567e-05 TDB
period 1661.024453742988
4.55		 6.2352e-06
1.707e-08		 d
yr
n .2167337146595092 8.1357e-10 deg/d
Q 3.51238300450781 8.7899e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2526  
   data-arc span      42241 days (115.65 yr)  
   first obs. used      1904-01-10  
   last obs. used      2019-09-04  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .43815  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2020-Feb-22 15:29:39  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.00281 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 1.92977 au 
 T_jup = 3.267 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 8.5   n/a MPO492755 IRAS observations used: 36
magnitude slope G -0.06   n/a PDS3 (MPC 17259) Fit
diameter diameter 107.227 km 0.494 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
rotation period rot_per 28.479 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-August); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Wang, X.-b.; Gu, S.-h.; Li, X.-j. (2010) Earth, Moon, and Planets 106, 97-104.]
[Pilcher, F. (2015) Minor Planet Bull. 42, 280-281.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.073   0.014 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
B-V BV 0.712   0.015 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=5; phase (min.=8.37, mean=16.47, max.=24.99) deg.
U-B UB 0.341   0.030 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=4; phase (min.=8.37, mean=14.34, max.=17.58) 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 Ch   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)

521 Brixia (A904 AE)          Discovered 1904-Jan-10 by Dugan, R. S. at Heidelberg
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 A904 AE = 1948 QU 
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