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901 Brunsia (A918 QA)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000901
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 28 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .2207144521011562 3.6178e-08  
a 2.224328461848404 5.6973e-09 au
q 1.733387024098526 8.112e-08 au
i 3.446874116279334 3.5297e-06 deg
node 265.0778467897498 6.32e-05 deg
peri 68.35358237275454 6.3759e-05 deg
M 127.7071195024676 1.1581e-05 deg
tp 2458170.657440217557
(2018-Feb-21.15744022)		 3.7903e-05 TDB
period 1211.704735997037
3.32		 4.6554e-06
1.275e-08		 d
yr
n .2971020821370136 1.1415e-09 deg/d
Q 2.715269899598282 6.9548e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2662  
   data-arc span      41661 days (114.06 yr)  
   first obs. used      1905-11-04  
   last obs. used      2019-11-27  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .42998  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Dec-03 20:14:08  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = .725899 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.6595 au 
 T_jup = 3.612 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 11.35   n/a PDS3 (MPC 17260)  
diameter diameter 13.210 km 0.140 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
rotation period rot_per 3.1363 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Behrend, R. (2001) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Vander Haagen, G. (2009) Minor Planet Bull. 36, 136-138.]
[Behrend, R. (2011) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Klinglesmith III, D.A.; Hendrickx, S.; Madden, K.; Montgomery, S. (2016) Minor Planet Bull. 43, 234-239.]
[Behrend, R. (2017) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Klinglesmith III, D.K. (2017) Minor Planet Bull. 44, 345-348.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.234   0.033 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..121M)  
B-V BV 0.901   0.021 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=1; phase=22.46 deg.
U-B UB 0.546   0.031 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=1; phase=22.46 deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T S   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 7 color indices

901 Brunsia (A918 QA)          Discovered 1918-Aug-30 by Wolf, M. at Heidelberg
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 A918 QA = 1941 MH = 1948 VJ = 1970 EP1 = A905 VD 
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