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916 America (A915 PE)
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000916
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2459200.5 (2020-Dec-17.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 35 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .2368865492795655 1.2832e-08  
a 2.365208929660326 5.9594e-09 au
q 1.804922747987877 3.0746e-08 au
i 11.09590989215535 9.7199e-07 deg
node 329.7549512219899 4.3665e-06 deg
peri 41.52670858529723 5.1573e-06 deg
M 319.6524140125549 6.1835e-06 deg
tp 2459349.407902717941
(2021-May-14.90790272)		 2.3146e-05 TDB
period 1328.625831422464
3.64		 5.0214e-06
1.375e-08		 d
yr
n .270956646699074 1.0241e-09 deg/d
Q 2.925495111332775 7.3711e-09 au
   Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2889  
   data-arc span      35318 days (96.70 yr)  
   first obs. used      1924-01-29  
   last obs. used      2020-10-09  
   planetary ephem.      DE441  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB441-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .38924  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2021-Apr-12 11:37:46  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = .817263 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.59173 au 
 T_jup = 3.486 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 11.52   n/a E2021B10  
diameter diameter 33.23 km 1.3 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 16
rotation period rot_per 37.294 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2020-October); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Di Martino, M. (1986) in Asteroids, Comets, Meteors II. C.-I. Lagerkvist, B.A. Lindblad, M. Lundstedt, H. Rickman, eds. Uppsala, pp. 81-84.]
[Behrend, R. (2017) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Polakis, T. (2018) Minor Planet Bull. 45, 112-115.]
geometric albedo albedo 0.0530   0.004 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 16

916 America (A915 PE)          Discovered 1915-Aug-07 by Neujmin, G. at Simeis
Discovered at Simeis during the First World War while Simeis was not in communication with the Rechen-Institut for long periods of time were given provisional designations containing the Greek letter SIGMA. These are here abbreviated S.
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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