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2679 Kittisvaara (1939 TG)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2002679
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459000.5 (2020-May-31.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 37 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .1018419296160951 2.9101e-08  
a 2.620528143162595 8.7846e-09 au
q 2.353648500449633 7.8102e-08 au
i 10.09796213534661 3.252e-06 deg
node 208.1688001457584 1.7938e-05 deg
peri 281.4679828073197 2.4607e-05 deg
M 262.4112242972065 1.8503e-05 deg
tp 2459420.528769431529
(2021-Jul-25.02876943)		 8.0339e-05 TDB
period 1549.464637776185
4.24		 7.7913e-06
2.133e-08		 d
yr
n .232338313003824 1.1683e-09 deg/d
Q 2.887407785875556 9.6793e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2816  
   data-arc span      29626 days (81.11 yr)  
   first obs. used      1939-10-07  
   last obs. used      2020-11-16  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .43426  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2020-Dec-18 02:07:43  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.39254 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.21396 au 
 T_jup = 3.376 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 12.0   n/a MPO309167  
diameter diameter 10.076 km 0.210 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...741...68M)  
rotation period rot_per 10.123 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2020-October); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Brinsfield, J.W. (2009) Minor Planet Bull. 36, 127-128.]
[Carbo, L.; Green, D.; Kragh, K.; Krotz, J.; et al. (2009) Minor Planet Bull. 36, 152-157.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.302   0.045 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...741...68M)  

2679 Kittisvaara (1939 TG)          Discovered 1939-Oct-07 by Vaisala, Y. at Turku
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Close-Approach Data   ...sorted by Date/Time (TDB)
Date/Time (TDB) Time Uncertainty
(days_HH:MM)		 Body Nominal Distance (au) Minimum Distance (au) Maximum Distance (au) V-relative (km/s) V-infinity (km/s) JD (TDB) Time Uncertainty (minutes) Semi-major axis (km) Semi-minor axis (km) range-LOV angle (deg) N-sigma BP Orbit Ref. Reference Modified
2165-Feb-10 21:55 00:04 Vesta 0.0335685347007559 0.033558324645871 0.0335787505334189 5.0826320405608 5.08263134317425 2511851.413507619 3.63775633728738 859.899784704849 31.3996847670014 53.8529247420189 128848.026272963 T 37 CATAB v2.0f-lin.ifort 2020-Dec-18 02:07:50 2020-Dec-18 02:07

Alternate Designations
 1939 TG = 1948 XO = 1967 JU = 1969 VF2 = 1973 UG5 = 1977 SD2 = 1981 RL 
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