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533 Sara (A904 HC)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000533
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 37 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .04537357753985469 4.1859e-08  
a 2.97833250130147 1.2668e-08 au
q 2.843194900614198 1.2424e-07 au
i 6.556866117826014 4.8025e-06 deg
node 180.3202130469198 3.3338e-05 deg
peri 32.73099253769979 5.5098e-05 deg
M 124.8378696253222 4.425e-05 deg
tp 2457949.468434411948
(2017-Jul-14.96843441)		 0.00023006 TDB
period 1877.405985179985
5.14		 1.1978e-05
3.279e-08		 d
yr
n .1917539428561517 1.2234e-09 deg/d
Q 3.113470101988742 1.3243e-08 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2867  
   data-arc span      43084 days (117.96 yr)  
   first obs. used      1901-11-12  
   last obs. used      2019-10-28  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .48012  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Nov-07 01:54:24  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.84048 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 1.84884 au 
 T_jup = 3.249 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 9.6   n/a MPO416708  
diameter diameter 30.819 km 0.430 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
rotation period rot_per 11.654 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2006) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Behrend, R. (2007) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Fleenor, M.L. (2007) Minor Planet Bull. 34, 129.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.252   0.035 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
B-V BV 0.871   0.028 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=3; phase (min.=6.07, mean=11.69, max.=14.51) deg.
U-B UB 0.386   0.067 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=2; phase (min.=6.07, mean=10.28, max.=14.50) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T S   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 2 color indices
SMASSII spectral type spec_B S   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)

533 Sara (A904 HC)          Discovered 1904-Apr-19 by Dugan, R. S. at Heidelberg
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 A904 HC = A901 VB = A911 UB 
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