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49 Pales (A857 SB)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000049
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459200.5 (2020-Dec-17.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 89 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .2212452658343487 1.2795e-08  
a 3.096651730571706 5.2531e-09 au
q 2.411532195244973 3.9133e-08 au
i 3.201779334091138 3.9473e-07 deg
node 285.0534422103793 6.6532e-06 deg
peri 113.0367220977662 9.0474e-06 deg
M 348.1453348283031 4.8439e-06 deg
tp 2459266.042615039134
(2021-Feb-20.54261504)		 2.6788e-05 TDB
period 1990.384466566135
5.45		 5.0647e-06
1.387e-08		 d
yr
n .1808695787407755 4.6024e-10 deg/d
Q 3.781771265898439 6.4154e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      3236  
   data-arc span      57451 days (157.29 yr)  
   first obs. used      1863-11-20  
   last obs. used      2021-03-07  
   planetary ephem.      DE441  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB441-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .50883  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2021-Apr-12 10:12:21  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.42039 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 1.67198 au 
 T_jup = 3.183 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 7.86   n/a E2021B10  
diameter diameter 166.252 km 2.166 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
rotation period rot_per 20.705 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2020-October); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2016) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Pilcher, F.; Benishek, V.; Klinglesmith III, D.A. (2016) Minor Planet Bull. 43, 182-183.]
[Pilcher, F. (2017) Minor Planet Bull. 44, 249-251.]
[Pilcher, F. (2018) Minor Planet Bull. 45, 356-359.]
[Behrend, R. (2020) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo albedo 0.048   0.009 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
B-V BV 0.749   0.045 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=5; phase (min.=2.44, mean=12.29, max.=19.60) deg.
U-B UB 0.411   0.044 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=3; phase (min.=2.44, mean=11.44, max.=19.60) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T CG   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)

49 Pales (A857 SB)          Discovered 1857-Sep-19 by Goldschmidt, H. at Paris
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 A857 SB = 1947 FG = 1950 XJ = 1954 MF = 1988 VU7 = A908 AF 
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