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Minor Planet Center

(111) Ate

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 4876
  (111) Ate
Epoch 2002 May 6.0 TT = JDT 2452400.5                   Goffin
M  44.69538              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.23590789     Peri.  165.65578     -0.36832822     -0.92709224
a   2.5940265      Node   305.91112     +0.84429606     -0.30224727
e   0.1017242      Incl.    4.92468     +0.38922805     -0.22169023
P   4.18           H    8.02          G   0.15           U   0
From 405 observations at 52 oppositions, 1870-2000, 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 12 22    10 01.55   +11 54.3    1.664    2.338   121.9    20.9    12.0
2001 12 27    10 01.96   +11 40.3    1.614    2.340   126.8    19.7    11.9
2002 01 06    10 00.47   +11 22.7    1.524    2.343   137.2    16.6    11.7
2002 01 11    09 58.57   +11 19.3    1.486    2.345   142.7    14.7    11.6
2002 01 16    09 55.93   +11 19.3    1.452    2.347   148.4    12.7    11.4
2002 01 21    09 52.60   +11 22.6    1.424    2.350   154.3    10.5    11.3
2002 01 26    09 48.69   +11 28.7    1.401    2.352   160.3     8.1    11.2
2002 01 31    09 44.30   +11 37.2    1.385    2.354   166.4     5.7    11.0
2002 02 05    09 39.58   +11 47.4    1.376    2.357   172.4     3.2    10.9
2002 02 10    09 34.66   +11 58.8    1.373    2.360   177.5     1.1    10.7
2002 02 15    09 29.74   +12 10.6    1.378    2.362   174.2     2.4    10.9
2002 02 20    09 24.99   +12 22.2    1.389    2.365   168.2     4.9    11.0
2002 02 25    09 20.57   +12 33.0    1.406    2.368   162.2     7.3    11.2
2002 03 02    09 16.63   +12 42.3    1.430    2.371   156.3     9.7    11.3
2002 03 07    09 13.26   +12 49.9    1.460    2.375   150.5    11.9    11.4
2002 03 12    09 10.57   +12 55.5    1.496    2.378   144.8    13.9    11.6
2002 03 17    09 08.60   +12 58.8    1.536    2.382   139.4    15.8    11.7
2002 03 22    09 07.40   +12 59.6    1.581    2.385   134.1    17.4    11.8
2002 03 27    09 06.96   +12 57.9    1.630    2.389   129.1    18.9    11.9

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