(120347) Salacia


This object has a more recent orbit available here

Object

Object (120347) Salacia
Diameter(1) 854 km
Dynamic class(1) cubewano
Absolute magnitude 4.00
G slop 0.15
(1) Data from the johnston archive list.

Orbital elements

Epoch (Julian date) 2458200.5
Semi major axis 41.947308 ± 0.002151 au
Eccentricity 0.109697861 ± 0.000016905
Inclination 23.924566098 ± 0.000047693 °
Longitude of ascending node 279.955441 ± 0.000760 °
Argument of perihelia 309.613248 ± 0.017852 °
Mean anomaly 122.921556 ± 0.020315 °
Orbital period 271.68 yr

Ephemeris & Observations

Ephemeris version NIMAv5
Observation file (documentation) omc_ast_NIMAv5.txt
bsp file 120347_Salacia_nima_v5.bsp
Date of first observation 1982-07-25
Date of last observation 2018-08-14
Number of observations used in the fit 118
Number of rejected observations 31
Number of DES observations 0
Number of MPC observations 127
Number of unpublished observations 22
RMS of observations 0.215 arcsec

Residuals

residual plot

Residuals in right ascension and declination compared to NIMAv5 ephemeris.
Colours indicate the estimated precision in arcsec used as weights in the fitting process.

Orbit quality

date σα (arcsec) σδ (arcsec)
2019-01 0.119 0.092
2019-07 0.226 0.119
2020-01 0.142 0.102
2020-07 0.256 0.134
2021-01 0.169 0.114
2021-07 0.289 0.150
2022-01 0.199 0.127
2022-07 0.325 0.167
2023-01 0.232 0.142

Ephemeris comparison

residual plot

Difference between NIMAv5 and JPL15 in right ascension (weighted by cos δ) and in declination.
Gray area represents the 1-σ uncertainty of NIMA ephemeris. Green dots represent the DES observations.