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(109) Felicitas

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 23226:
  (109) Felicitas
Epoch 2002 May 6.0 TT = JDT 2452400.5                   Bowell
M 312.76758              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.22243318     Peri.   56.74052     +0.50083390     -0.86550884
a   2.6977581      Node     3.23380     +0.74150331     +0.42443227
e   0.2954570      Incl.    7.88253     +0.44647312     +0.26599191
P   4.43           H    8.75          G   0.04
From 94 observations at 34 oppositions, 1869-1993, mean residual 0".89.
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
 
2002 09 23    03 20.35   +24 18.9    1.200    1.962   125.6    24.6    11.9
2002 09 28    03 22.19   +25 04.1    1.155    1.954   129.8    23.2    11.8
2002 10 03    03 23.14   +25 47.6    1.112    1.947   134.2    21.6    11.6
2002 10 08    03 23.14   +26 29.0    1.073    1.940   138.7    19.9    11.5
2002 10 13    03 22.19   +27 07.7    1.038    1.933   143.5    17.9    11.3
2002 10 18    03 20.29   +27 43.2    1.007    1.927   148.3    15.7    11.2
2002 10 23    03 17.50   +28 14.7    0.981    1.922   153.3    13.5    11.0
2002 10 28    03 13.89   +28 41.7    0.959    1.917   158.1    11.1    10.9
2002 11 02    03 09.61   +29 03.3    0.943    1.913   162.6     8.9    10.7
2002 11 07    03 04.85   +29 19.1    0.932    1.910   166.3     7.1    10.6
2002 11 12    02 59.86   +29 29.1    0.927    1.907   168.0     6.2    10.5
2002 11 17    02 54.91   +29 33.5    0.928    1.904   166.9     6.8    10.6
2002 11 22    02 50.24   +29 33.0    0.934    1.902   163.6     8.4    10.7
2002 11 27    02 46.10   +29 28.4    0.946    1.901   159.2    10.6    10.8
2002 12 02    02 42.68   +29 20.8    0.963    1.901   154.4    13.0    10.9
2002 12 07    02 40.14   +29 11.3    0.985    1.901   149.4    15.3    11.1
2002 12 12    02 38.60   +29 01.4    1.012    1.901   144.4    17.5    11.2
2002 12 17    02 38.11   +28 51.9    1.043    1.903   139.6    19.6    11.4
2002 12 22    02 38.69   +28 43.7    1.078    1.904   134.9    21.5    11.5
2002 12 27    02 40.30   +28 37.3    1.116    1.907   130.4    23.1    11.7
2003 01 01    02 42.92   +28 33.0    1.158    1.910   126.0    24.6    11.8

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