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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459000.5 (2020-May-31.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 33 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
| Element | Value | Uncertainty (1-sigma) | Units |
| e | .1162938667117103 | 3.9116e-08 | |
| a | 2.23788184237913 | 6.2721e-09 | au |
| q | 1.977629909684935 | 8.8725e-08 | au |
| i | 5.239425435781103 | 3.2496e-06 | deg |
| node | 71.95878020203978 | 4.0233e-05 | deg |
| peri | 118.5595441814428 | 4.2397e-05 | deg |
| M | 340.2133660978079 | 1.3383e-05 | deg |
| tp | 2459067.708402607984
(2020-Aug-06.20840261) | 4.5468e-05 | TDB |
| period | 1222.796411884579
3.35 | 5.1407e-06
1.407e-08 | d
yr |
| n | .2944071445590574 | 1.2377e-09 | deg/d |
| Q | 2.498133775073326 | 7.0015e-09 | au |
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Physical Parameter Table
| Parameter |
Symbol |
Value |
Units |
Sigma |
Reference |
Notes |
| absolute magnitude |
H |
12.2 |
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n/a |
MPO452207 |
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| diameter |
diameter |
7.837 |
km |
0.088 |
urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M) |
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| rotation period |
rot_per |
20. |
h |
n/a |
LCDB (Rev. 2019-August); Warner et al., 2009 |
lower-limit; Result based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so.
Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2007) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Pravec, P.; Wolf, M.; Sarounova, L. (2007) http://www.asu.cas.cz/~ppravec/neo.htm] |
| geometric albedo |
albedo |
0.228 |
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0.031 |
urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M) |
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| 3166 Klondike (1940 FG) Discovered 1940-Mar-30 by Vaisala, Y. at Turku |
| Reference: DISCOVERY.DB | Last Updated: 2003-08-29 |
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Alternate Designations
| 1940 FG = 1937 LL = 1955 XG = 1957 KM = 1960 HC = 1970 ET = 1974 MT = 1974 QV2 = 1975 VS = 1977 JA1 = 1980 DG4 |
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