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Minor Planet Center

(30) Urania

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 24085:
   (30) Urania
Epoch 2002 Nov. 22.0 TT = JDT 2452600.5  (M-c)          Bowell
M 204.67124              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.27095904     Peri.   86.24246     +0.82680489     -0.56174681
a   2.3651950      Node   307.93183     +0.50044875     +0.75808359
e   0.1273228      Incl.    2.09854     +0.25679704     +0.33128506
P   3.64           H    7.57          G   0.15
From 509 observations at 48 oppositions, 1869-1994, mean residual 0".70.
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
 
2003 05 21    19 43.33   -22 59.3    1.752    2.484   125.8    19.3    11.7
2003 05 26    19 43.37   -22 58.9    1.696    2.478   130.6    18.1    11.6
2003 05 31    19 42.64   -23 00.1    1.643    2.472   135.6    16.7    11.5
2003 06 05    19 41.13   -23 02.8    1.595    2.465   140.7    15.1    11.4
2003 06 10    19 38.86   -23 06.9    1.550    2.459   146.0    13.3    11.3
2003 06 15    19 35.86   -23 12.0    1.511    2.452   151.5    11.4    11.1
2003 06 20    19 32.18   -23 18.0    1.477    2.446   157.1     9.3    11.0
2003 06 25    19 27.88   -23 24.4    1.449    2.439   162.9     7.1    10.8
2003 06 30    19 23.08   -23 30.9    1.427    2.432   168.7     4.7    10.7
2003 07 05    19 17.91   -23 36.9    1.411    2.425   174.6     2.3    10.5
2003 07 10    19 12.53   -23 42.2    1.402    2.419   178.5     0.6    10.3
2003 07 15    19 07.12   -23 46.5    1.399    2.412   173.1     2.9    10.5
2003 07 20    19 01.84   -23 49.5    1.403    2.405   167.2     5.4    10.7
2003 07 25    18 56.86   -23 51.2    1.413    2.398   161.3     7.8    10.8
2003 07 30    18 52.34   -23 51.5    1.429    2.391   155.5    10.1    10.9
2003 08 04    18 48.41   -23 50.5    1.451    2.384   149.9    12.3    11.0
2003 08 09    18 45.17   -23 48.4    1.478    2.377   144.3    14.4    11.1
2003 08 14    18 42.70   -23 45.4    1.510    2.370   139.0    16.3    11.2
2003 08 19    18 41.04   -23 41.5    1.546    2.363   133.8    18.0    11.3
2003 08 24    18 40.22   -23 37.0    1.586    2.355   128.8    19.5    11.4
2003 08 29    18 40.22   -23 31.8    1.629    2.348   124.0    20.9    11.5
2003 09 03    18 41.06   -23 26.1    1.675    2.341   119.4    22.1    11.6
2003 09 08    18 42.69   -23 19.8    1.723    2.334   114.9    23.1    11.7
2003 09 13    18 45.08   -23 12.8    1.774    2.327   110.6    23.9    11.8
2003 09 18    18 48.19   -23 05.1    1.825    2.320   106.4    24.6    11.8

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