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886 Washingtonia (A917 WA)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000886
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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 .2701452410651169 4.1527e-08  
a 3.169914948171462 1.3535e-08 au
q 2.313577510341765 1.3438e-07 au
i 16.86623795461373 4.492e-06 deg
node 58.89339294504821 1.4769e-05 deg
peri 302.1650578655892 1.6064e-05 deg
M 31.93524446128868 7.8211e-06 deg
tp 2458417.632054422869
(2018-Oct-26.13205442)		 4.4378e-05 TDB
period 2061.435931313072
5.64		 1.3203e-05
3.615e-08		 d
yr
n .1746355511377407 1.1185e-09 deg/d
Q 4.026252386001159 1.7192e-08 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      3339  
   data-arc span      39999 days (109.51 yr)  
   first obs. used      1910-06-03  
   last obs. used      2019-12-07  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .34634  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Dec-13 20:50:15  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.36063 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 1.68025 au 
 T_jup = 3.080 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 9.3   n/a MPO236394  
diameter diameter 86.793 km 0.857 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
rotation period rot_per 9.001 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Warner, B.D. (2003) Minor Planet Bull. 30, 61-64.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.078   0.015 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
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)

886 Washingtonia (A917 WA)          Discovered 1917-Nov-16 by Peters, G. H. at Washington
Independent discovery Nov. 12 by M. Harwood, Nantucket.
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 A917 WA = 1945 WA = 1952 BN = A910 LA = A916 NA = A917 UD 
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