Pallas

Pallas is catalogued in this registry as an asteroid, held in the frame of Sol, from Solar system (curated).

Registry id PALLAS · source layer solar · provenance RAW — read directly from a source catalogue, unaltered

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Sources disagree about this object

The registry keeps every source's value rather than choosing one and discarding the rest. If you quote a figure below, quoting it alone would hide a real disagreement between catalogues.

Measured quantities

QuantityValueUncertaintySource
Radius256000 m (256 km)no published uncertainty in this registrySolar system (curated) ⚖ 1 source disagree — 285000 m (GCAT worlds)
Mass2.04×10^20 kgno published uncertainty in this registrySolar system (curated) ⚖ 1 source disagree — 2.08606×10^20 kg (GCAT worlds)

Each row carries its own uncertainty and its own source. Where a row says no uncertainty is published, that is what the catalogue says — it is not a claim that the value is exact.

Trajectory, leg by leg

This object's parent frame changes over its life. Each leg names the frame it is expressed in and the source arc it came from. A leg with no geometry is a declared gap — the registry holds no path across it and draws none. This object has 123 legs; the table shows the first and last 12 and counts the rest.

FromToFrameGeometry Source arc
1940-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2429629.5)open-endedSOLorbitcanonical
1940-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2429629.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
1940-12-31 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2429994.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
1941-12-31 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2430359.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
1942-12-31 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2430724.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
1943-12-31 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2431089.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
1944-12-30 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2431454.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
1945-12-30 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2431819.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
1946-12-30 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2432184.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
1947-12-30 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2432549.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
1948-12-29 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2432914.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
1949-12-29 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2433279.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
… 99 further legs omitted here. The registry holds all 123; the scene draws them.
2049-12-04 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2469779.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
2050-12-04 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2470144.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
2051-12-04 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2470509.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
2052-12-03 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2470874.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
2053-12-03 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2471239.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
2054-12-03 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2471604.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
2055-12-03 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2471969.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
2056-12-02 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2472334.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
2057-12-02 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2472699.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
2058-12-02 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2473064.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
2059-12-02 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2473429.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs
2060-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2473794.5)open-endedSOLorbithorizons-dwarfs

Classification

Kindasteroid
Originnatural

The catalogue's own note

a/e/i/Ω/ω/M osculating [JPL SBDB, full precision], carried AT THEIR OWN EPOCH (JD 2461200.5) rather than re-labelled J2000; two-body propagation, planetary perturbations not modelled.

Reproduced as the source wrote it. Author-year citations link to their DOI where one is registered.

What this registry does not know about it

These are absences in the catalogues aggregated here, not measurements of zero, and not statements that the quantity is unknown to science:

Where this record comes from

DatabaseSolar system (curated)
AuthorityStandish 1992 mean elements; JPL SSD satellites; IAU spin data
LicencePublic ephemerides; textures CC BY 4.0 (Solar System Scope)
How it enteredCurated data-as-code (src/ingest/catalogs/solar.ts)
CoverageSol + 8 planets + 7 dwarfs/asteroids + 22 major moons, rings, spin axes

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