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3920 Aubignan (1948 WF)
Classification: Mars-crossing Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2003920
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 36 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .2711251570211787 3.2874e-08  
a 2.254537357734577 6.7789e-09 au
q 1.643275562608676 7.3946e-08 au
i 9.041122337184529 3.7954e-06 deg
node 116.3542708644429 2.6754e-05 deg
peri 237.622288205874 2.7767e-05 deg
M 339.8957761793184 8.9906e-06 deg
tp 2458669.550907503481
(2019-Jul-05.05090750)		 3.098e-05 TDB
period 1236.472838890743
3.39		 5.5767e-06
1.527e-08		 d
yr
n .2911507545308969 1.3131e-09 deg/d
Q 2.865799152860477 8.6169e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2105  
   data-arc span      25931 days (71.00 yr)  
   first obs. used      1948-11-28  
   last obs. used      2019-11-27  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .45566  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Dec-03 20:55:28  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = .657321 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.60035 au 
 T_jup = 3.559 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 13.0   n/a MPO347553  
diameter diameter 5.956 km 1.308 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AJ....152...63N)  
rotation period rot_per 4.4762 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Li, B.; Zhao, H.; Han, X.L.; Liu, W.; et al. (2013) Minor Planet Bull. 40, 43-44.]
[Simpson, G.; Chong, E.; Gerhardt, M.; Gorsky, S.; et al. (2013) Minor Planet Bull. 146-151.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.339   0.192 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AJ....152...63N)  
SMASSII spectral type spec_B Sa   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)

3920 Aubignan (1948 WF)          Discovered 1948-Nov-28 by Arend, S. at Uccle
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

Alternate Designations
 1948 WF = 1934 NW = 1934 PU = 1975 XC4 = 1978 NE2 
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