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4923 Clarke (1981 EO27)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2004923
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459000.5 (2020-May-31.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 29 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .2016289127903938 3.2483e-08  
a 2.14480630062992 6.4455e-09 au
q 1.712351338087923 7.1975e-08 au
i 6.675054413880938 3.2307e-06 deg
node 188.4884573588726 2.88e-05 deg
peri 108.5616275590846 3.0498e-05 deg
M 78.70059543979606 7.5107e-06 deg
tp 2458749.683525279908
(2019-Sep-23.18352528)		 2.3968e-05 TDB
period 1147.309374149597
3.14		 5.1717e-06
1.416e-08		 d
yr
n .3137776157950747 1.4144e-09 deg/d
Q 2.577261263171918 7.745e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2037  
   data-arc span      17548 days (48.04 yr)  
   first obs. used      1972-07-13  
   last obs. used      2020-07-29  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .4914  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2020-Aug-24 23:21:33  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = .711501 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.65597 au 
 T_jup = 3.675 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 14.3   n/a MPO267727  
diameter diameter 3.367 km 0.033 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
rotation period rot_per 3.143 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-August); 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:
[Pravec, P.; Wolf, M.; Sarounova, L. (2013) http://www.asu.cas.cz/~ppravec/neo.htm]
[Aznar Macias, A. (2017) Minor Planet Bull. 44, 60-63.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.366   0.066 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
SMASSII spectral type spec_B S   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)

4923 Clarke (1981 EO27)          Discovered 1981-Mar-02 by Bus, S. J. at Siding Spring
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 1981 EO27 = 1972 NJ 
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