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904 Rockefellia (A918 UC)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000904
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459000.5 (2020-May-31.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 43 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .08678584019732033 3.1722e-08  
a 2.99665380432931 1.1646e-08 au
q 2.736586686140094 9.3412e-08 au
i 15.14725581943699 4.2609e-06 deg
node 198.07591399466 1.312e-05 deg
peri 251.7750815520467 2.7682e-05 deg
M 177.9952732397635 2.5237e-05 deg
tp 2458063.673310374595
(2017-Nov-06.17331037)		 0.00013115 TDB
period 1894.75597933914
5.19		 1.1046e-05
3.024e-08		 d
yr
n .1899980809800965 1.1076e-09 deg/d
Q 3.256720922518525 1.2657e-08 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      3015  
   data-arc span      39089 days (107.02 yr)  
   first obs. used      1913-10-31  
   last obs. used      2020-11-07  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .43508  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2020-Dec-18 01:57:00  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.79585 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.02547 au 
 T_jup = 3.196 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 10.4   n/a MPO347521  
diameter diameter 49.146 km 0.763 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
rotation period rot_per 6.826 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2020-October); Warner et al., 2009 Result based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so.
Published Reference List:
[Polakis, T. (2018) Minor Planet Bull. 45, 199-203.]
[Polakis, T. (2020) Minor Planet Bull. 47, 314-321.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.055   0.009 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  

904 Rockefellia (A918 UC)          Discovered 1918-Oct-29 by Wolf, M. at Heidelberg
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 A918 UC = 1949 UK = 1961 AK = A913 UD = A916 KC 
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