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442 Eichsfeldia (A899 CA)

Classification: Main-belt Asteroid SPK-ID: 2000442

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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 41 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)

Element	Value	Uncertainty (1-sigma)	Units
e	.07101324258673236	3.7139e-08
a	2.344948751596495	5.5514e-09	au
q	2.178426337045918	8.6205e-08	au
i	6.069625322865638	3.6148e-06	deg
node	134.8951881246982	3.7324e-05	deg
peri	84.55435714864504	4.5087e-05	deg
M	100.8879829923896	2.5382e-05	deg
t_p	2458232.933943286643 (2018-Apr-24.43394329)	9.2388e-05	TDB
period	1311.591098285612 3.59	4.6576e-06 1.275e-08	d yr
n	.2744757878202727	9.7469e-10	deg/d
Q	2.511471166147072	5.9456e-09	au

Orbit Determination Parameters

# obs. used (total)	2921
data-arc span	46638 days (127.69 yr)
first obs. used	1892-03-19
last obs. used	2019-11-27
planetary ephem.	DE431
SB-pert. ephem.	SB431-N16
condition code	0
norm. resid. RMS	.47754
source	ORB
producer	Otto Matic
solution date	2019-Dec-03 20:07:21

Additional Information

Earth MOID = 1.18081 au

Jupiter MOID = 2.47004 au

T_jup = 3.551

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Physical Parameter Table

Parameter	Symbol	Value	Units	Sigma	Reference	Notes
absolute magnitude	H	10.03		n/a	IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0	IRAS observations used: 17
diameter	diameter	62.171	km	1.181	urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)
rotation period	rot_per	11.871	h	n/a	LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009	Published Reference List: [Koff, R.A.; Brincat, S.F. (2000) Minor Planet Bull. 27, 49-51.] [Behrend, R. (2005) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo	albedo	0.044		0.004	urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)
B-V	BV	0.692		0.020	EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2	#obs=2; phase (min.=14.65, mean=16.22, max.=17.79) deg.
U-B	UB	0.331		0.028	EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2	#obs=2; phase (min.=14.65, mean=16.22, max.=17.79) deg.
Tholen spectral type	spec_T	C		n/a	EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0	used 7 color indices
SMASSII spectral type	spec_B	Ch		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)

442 Eichsfeldia (A899 CA) Discovered 1899-Feb-15 by Wolf, M. and Schwassmann, A. at Heidelberg
Reference: DISCOVERY.DB	Last Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations

A899 CA = A892 FA

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