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170 Maria
Classification: Main-belt Asteroid          SPK-ID: 2000170
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Orbital Elements at Epoch 2458600.5 (2019-Apr-27.0) TDB
Reference: JPL 38 (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
 Element Value Uncertainty (1-sigma)   Units 
e .06362075903986093 3.7897e-08  
a 2.553786541509238 7.7636e-09 au
q 2.391312703312638 9.7864e-08 au
i 14.37737862854358 4.3714e-06 deg
node 301.2973525462713 2.0646e-05 deg
peri 158.4887318640161 4.9487e-05 deg
M 330.3846387148389 4.4165e-05 deg
tp 2458723.128058400015
(2019-Aug-27.62805840)
0.00018282 TDB
period 1490.64874133834
4.08
6.7974e-06
1.861e-08
d
yr
n .2415055874778276 1.1013e-09 deg/d
Q 2.716260379705837 8.2575e-09 au
  Orbit Determination Parameters
   # obs. used (total)      2198  
   data-arc span      43956 days (120.34 yr)  
   first obs. used      1899-08-02  
   last obs. used      2019-12-07  
   planetary ephem.      DE431  
   SB-pert. ephem.      SB431-N16  
   condition code      0  
   norm. resid. RMS      .42501  
   source      ORB  
   producer      Otto Matic  
   solution date      2019-Dec-13 20:38:15  

Additional Information
 Earth MOID = 1.41245 au 
 Jupiter MOID = 2.39572 au 
 T_jup = 3.392 
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Physical Parameter Table
Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes
absolute magnitude H 9.39   n/a IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0 IRAS observations used: 12
diameter diameter 33.136 km 0.831 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
rotation period rot_per 13.120 h n/a LCDB (Rev. 2019-January); Warner et al., 2009 Published Reference List:
[Denchev, P. (1999) Abstracts of ACM 1999, 117.]
[Denchev, P. (2000) Planet. Space Sci. 48, 987-992.]
[Warner, B.D. (2007) Minor Planet Bull. 34, 72-77.]
[Behrend, R. (2010) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
[Kim, M.-J.; Choi, Y.-J.; Moon, H.-K.; Byun, Y.-I.; et al. (2014) Astron. J. 147, A56.]
[Behrend, R. (2018) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html]
geometric albedo albedo 0.282   0.051 urn:nasa:pds:neowise_diameters_albedos::2.0[mainbelt] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...759L...8M)  
B-V BV 0.886   0.020 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=1; phase=5.87 deg.
U-B UB 0.447   0.039 EAR-A-5-DDR-UBV-MEAN-VALUES-V1.2 #obs=1; phase=5.87 deg.
Tholen spectral type spec_T S   n/a EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V4.0 used 7 color indices; used ground-based radiometric albedo
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)

170 Maria          Discovered 1877-Jan-10 by Perrotin, J. at Toulouse
Reference: DISCOVERY.DBLast Updated: 2003-08-29

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Alternate Designations
 1958 AC 
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