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114 Kassandra
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000114
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2457000.5 (2014-Dec-09.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 93 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .1354810565718579 3.476e-08  
a 2.677218931109484 8.2443e-09 AU
q 2.314506481648591 9.3686e-08 AU
i 4.936412010304997 3.7442e-06 deg
node 164.2289365837244 4.1669e-05 deg
peri 352.0293104835306 4.3397e-05 deg
M 62.25687191122574 1.2279e-05 deg
tp 2456723.800067686653
(2014-Mar-07.30006769)
5.4261e-05 JED
period 1600.015750467598
4.38
7.3907e-06
2.023e-08
d
yr
n .2249977851122974 1.0393e-09 deg/d
Q 3.039931380570376 9.3613e-09 AU
  Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      1506  
   data-arc span      40832 days (111.79 yr)  
   first obs. used      1902-09-03  
   last obs. used      2014-06-19  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-BIG16  
   condition code      0  
   fit RMS      .59048  
   data source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2014-Jul-14 11:53:38  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.32487 AU 
 T_jup = 3.360 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 8.26 mag n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 17
diameter diameter 99.65 km 1.9 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 17
rotation period rot_per 10.7431 h n/a Asteroid Lightcurve DataBase (Rev. 2014-Mar-01) Published Reference List:
[Gil Hutton, R.; Blain, A. (1988) Minor Planet Bul. 15, 39-40.]
[Piironen, J.; Lagerkvist, C.-I.; Erikson, A.; Oja, T.; et al. (1998) Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 128, 525-540.]
[Behrend, R. (2006) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Behrend, R. (2011) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo albedo 0.0884   0.003 IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 17
B-V BV .768 mag .010 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=4; phase (min.=.00, mean=3.22, max.=9.27) deg.
U-B UB .269 mag .182 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.1 #obs=4; phase (min.=.00, mean=3.22, max.=9.27) deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T T   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 7 color indices
SMASSII spectral type spec_B Xk   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)

114 Kassandra          Discovered 1871-Jul-23 by Peters, C. H. F. at Clinton
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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