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341 California (A892 SE)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000341
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 76 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .1942234959641323 3.3394e-08  
a 2.199802911780885 4.7641e-09 au
q 1.772549499822723 7.3868e-08 au
i 5.666864783350387 3.837e-06 deg
node 29.03965908070903 3.4322e-05 deg
peri 293.6656141724669 3.5394e-05 deg
M 318.0358292977372 8.7273e-06 deg
tp 2458739.415347591193
(2019-Sep-12.91534759)		 2.8967e-05 TDB
period 1191.719609751104
3.26		 3.8713e-06
1.06e-08		 d
yr
n .3020844811601174 9.8133e-10 deg/d
Q 2.627056323739045 5.6894e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2786  
   data-arc span      46449 days (127.17 yr)  
   first obs. used      1892-09-25  
   last obs. used      2019-11-28  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .42774  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Dec-03 20:05:34  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = .769078 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.70619 au 
 T_jup = 3.635 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 10.55   n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 21
diameter diameter 15.830 km 0.820 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
rotation period rot_per 318. h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Skiff, B.A. (2014) Posting on CALL web site. http://www.minorplanet.info/call.html]
[Pilcher, F.; Franco, L.; Pravec, P. (2017) Minor Planet Bull. 44, 87-90.]
[Polakis, T.; Skiff, B.A. (2017) Minor Planet Bull. 44, 299-302.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.425   0.037 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
B-V BV 0.920   0.020 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=1; phase=9.18 deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T S   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 1 color indices; used ground-based radiometric albedo

341 California (A892 SE)          Discovered 1892-Sep-25 by Wolf, M. at Heidelberg
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 A892 SE = 1979 FY2 
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