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1523 Pieksamaki (1939 BC)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2001523
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 29 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .09295767083139332 4.0996e-08  
a 2.242283871076031 6.2102e-09 au
q 2.033846385078003 9.3618e-08 au
i 5.140356321874054 3.9508e-06 deg
node 327.7731750433687 4.0324e-05 deg
peri 187.5575713434066 4.489e-05 deg
M 307.2146652357632 2.0688e-05 deg
tp 2458780.322940819370
(2019-Oct-23.82294082)		 7.0676e-05 TDB
period 1226.406140722882
3.36		 5.095e-06
1.395e-08		 d
yr
n .2935406045731349 1.2195e-09 deg/d
Q 2.450721357074059 6.7875e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2242  
   data-arc span      30567 days (83.69 yr)  
   first obs. used      1936-03-20  
   last obs. used      2019-11-27  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .45087  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Dec-03 20:23:23  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.04429 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.53839 au 
 T_jup = 3.623 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 12.3   n/a MPO425815  
diameter diameter 9.111 km 0.313 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
rotation period rot_per 5.3202 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Lagerkvist, C.-I. (1979) Icarus 38, 106-114.]
[Pray, D.P.; Galad, A.; Gajdos, S.; Vilagi, J.; et al. (2006) Minor Planet Bull. 33, 92-95.]
[Kryszczynska, A.; Colas, F.; Polinska, M.; Hirsch, R.; et al. (2012) Astron. Astrophys. 546, A72.]
[Behrend, R. (2013) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Stephens, R.D.; Warner, B.D. (2019) Minor Planet Bull. 45, 66-71.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.281   0.041 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  

1523 Pieksamaki (1939 BC)          Discovered 1939-Jan-18 by Vaisala, Y. at Turku
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

Alternate Designations
 1939 BC = 1936 FO1 = 1936 HC = 1946 GB = 1949 AC 
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