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Minor Planet Center

(37) Fides

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 31001:
   (37) Fides
Epoch 2001 Apr. 1.0 TT = JDT 2452000.5                  Goffin
M 266.69638              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.22959342     Peri.   63.08261     +0.33334942     -0.94277770
a   2.6413731      Node     7.45530     +0.84488330     +0.29544608
e   0.1759409      Incl.    3.07235     +0.41839022     +0.15453743
P   4.29           H    7.29          G   0.24           U   0
From 1399 observations at 97 oppositions, 1855-1996, mean residual 0".55.
An explanation of the orbital elements is available.

These orbital elements are also available in forms suitable for loading into a number of popular planetarium-type software programs.


Ephemeris

The following ephemeris is at intervals of five days. A daily ephemeris covering the same time interval is also available.

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
 
2001 07 10    00 12.53   -00 31.0    2.102    2.563   105.1    22.5    11.9
2001 07 15    00 15.37   -00 11.3    2.033    2.553   109.1    22.1    11.8
2001 07 20    00 17.72   +00 05.6    1.966    2.544   113.2    21.5    11.7
2001 07 25    00 19.55   +00 19.3    1.900    2.535   117.5    20.8    11.6
2001 07 30    00 20.81   +00 29.7    1.837    2.525   121.9    20.0    11.5
2001 08 04    00 21.50   +00 36.6    1.776    2.516   126.5    18.9    11.4
2001 08 09    00 21.56   +00 40.0    1.719    2.506   131.2    17.7    11.3
2001 08 14    00 20.99   +00 39.7    1.666    2.497   136.2    16.3    11.2
2001 08 19    00 19.76   +00 35.6    1.616    2.488   141.3    14.7    11.0
2001 08 24    00 17.88   +00 28.0    1.571    2.478   146.6    13.0    10.9
2001 08 29    00 15.38   +00 16.8    1.531    2.469   152.1    11.1    10.8
2001 09 03    00 12.31   +00 02.5    1.497    2.460   157.7     9.0    10.7
2001 09 08    00 08.74   -00 14.4    1.468    2.451   163.5     6.7    10.5
2001 09 13    00 04.75   -00 33.6    1.445    2.441   169.3     4.4    10.4
2001 09 18    00 00.45   -00 54.2    1.429    2.432   175.3     1.9    10.2
2001 09 23    23 55.99   -01 15.5    1.420    2.423   178.4     0.7    10.1
2001 09 28    23 51.51   -01 36.5    1.417    2.414   172.5     3.1    10.2
2001 10 03    23 47.17   -01 56.5    1.421    2.406   166.4     5.6    10.4
2001 10 08    23 43.10   -02 14.5    1.432    2.397   160.5     8.0    10.5
2001 10 13    23 39.43   -02 29.9    1.448    2.388   154.6    10.3    10.6
2001 10 18    23 36.27   -02 42.2    1.470    2.380   148.8    12.5    10.7
2001 10 23    23 33.72   -02 50.7    1.498    2.371   143.2    14.6    10.8
2001 10 28    23 31.85   -02 55.1    1.531    2.363   137.8    16.4    10.9
2001 11 02    23 30.69   -02 55.3    1.567    2.354   132.5    18.1    11.0
2001 11 07    23 30.25   -02 51.3    1.608    2.346   127.4    19.6    11.1
2001 11 12    23 30.54   -02 43.0    1.652    2.338   122.5    20.9    11.1
2001 11 17    23 31.55   -02 30.5    1.699    2.330   117.8    22.0    11.2
2001 11 22    23 33.25   -02 13.9    1.748    2.322   113.2    23.0    11.3
2001 11 27    23 35.61   -01 53.4    1.799    2.315   108.9    23.8    11.4
2001 12 02    23 38.59   -01 29.2    1.852    2.307   104.6    24.4    11.5
2001 12 07    23 42.15   -01 01.5    1.905    2.300   100.6    24.9    11.5
2001 12 12    23 46.25   -00 30.7    1.960    2.293    96.6    25.2    11.6
2001 12 17    23 50.86   +00 03.3    2.015    2.286    92.8    25.5    11.6

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