[ hide orbit diagram ]
For accurate long-term ephemerides, please instead use our Horizons system.This orbit viewer was implemented using two-body methods, and hence should not be used for determining accurate long-term trajectories (over several years or decades) or planetary encounter circumstances.
Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459200.5 (2020-Dec-17.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 37 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
Element | Value | Uncertainty (1-sigma) | Units |
e | .2819708646916578 | 2.882e-08 | |
a | 2.644971660534558 | 1.0178e-08 | au |
q | 1.899166714328699 | 7.6357e-08 | au |
i | 2.975493292634458 | 3.6254e-06 | deg |
node | 328.7071675017243 | 6.4588e-05 | deg |
peri | 340.2588273173663 | 6.4997e-05 | deg |
M | 313.4154854163305 | 1.0123e-05 | deg |
tp | 2459403.814819512074 (2021-Jul-08.31481951) | 4.4818e-05 | TDB |
period | 1571.194541329512 4.30 | 9.0689e-06 2.483e-08 | d yr |
n | .2291250322798191 | 1.3225e-09 | deg/d |
Q | 3.390776606740418 | 1.3048e-08 | au |
|
| | Orbit Determination Parameters
Additional Information
|
[ show covariance matrix ]
Physical Parameter Table
Parameter |
Symbol |
Value |
Units |
Sigma |
Reference |
Notes |
absolute magnitude |
H |
12.78 |
|
n/a |
E2021B10 |
|
diameter |
diameter |
7.652 |
km |
0.393 |
urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...741...68M) |
|
rotation period |
rot_per |
3.13 |
h |
n/a |
LCDB (Rev. 2020-October); Warner et al., 2009 |
Result based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so. Published Reference List: [Chang, C.-K.; Lin, H.-W.; Ip, W.-H.; Prince, T.A.; et al. (2016) Astrophys. J. Sup. Ser. 227, A20.] |
geometric albedo |
albedo |
0.302 |
|
0.062 |
urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...741...68M) |
|
|
2431 Skovoroda (1978 PF3) Discovered 1978-Aug-08 by Chernykh, N. at Nauchnyj |
Reference: DISCOVERY.DB | Last Updated: 2003-08-29 |
|
[ show close-approach data ]
Alternate Designations
1978 PF3 = 1948 RL1 = 1948 RZ = 1948 TB = 1951 EK = 1974 SX4 = 1974 WL1 |
|
|