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993 Moultona (A923 AB)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000993
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459000.5 (2020-May-31.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 38 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .04856573112650182 3.0524e-08  
a 2.860814264041201 1.0041e-08 au
q 2.721876727690915 8.6178e-08 au
i 1.779948928088451 4.2485e-06 deg
node 184.24210398144 0.00010478 deg
peri 248.8379048588911 0.00011504 deg
M 75.8190122581351 4.5929e-05 deg
tp 2458628.272425675707
(2019-May-24.77242568)		 0.0002258 TDB
period 1767.392145660239
4.84		 9.305e-06
2.548e-08		 d
yr
n .2036899399400217 1.0724e-09 deg/d
Q 2.999751800391487 1.0529e-08 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      3204  
   data-arc span      32368 days (88.62 yr)  
   first obs. used      1931-10-31  
   last obs. used      2020-06-13  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .41998  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2020-Jun-23 15:24:28  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.73714 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.13218 au 
 T_jup = 3.299 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 11.5   n/a MPO452172  
diameter diameter 12.433 km 1.133 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
rotation period rot_per 5.2712 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-August); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2014) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo albedo 0.315   0.033 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  

993 Moultona (A923 AB)          Discovered 1923-Jan-12 by Van Biesbroeck, G. at Williams Bay
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 A923 AB = 1928 BA = 1960 WD = 1964 PQ = 1967 CN 
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