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Minor Planet Center

(192) Nausikaa

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 31001:
  (192) Nausikaa
Epoch 2002 Nov. 22.0 TT = JDT 2452600.5                 Goffin
M 211.31843              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.26479914     Peri.   29.82509     +0.97220982     -0.23165522
a   2.4017345      Node   343.46641     +0.18432089     +0.84648339
e   0.2475626      Incl.    6.82570     +0.14433942     +0.47937640
P   3.72           H    7.13          G   0.03           U   0
From 864 observations at 67 oppositions, 1847-1996, mean residual 0".53.
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 04 11    16 56.24   -31 31.4    2.041    2.729   123.9    17.7    11.9
2003 04 16    16 55.83   -31 48.7    1.976    2.719   128.7    16.7    11.8
2003 04 21    16 54.64   -32 04.8    1.916    2.709   133.7    15.6    11.7
2003 04 26    16 52.66   -32 19.4    1.859    2.698   138.7    14.2    11.6
2003 05 01    16 49.89   -32 32.0    1.807    2.688   143.9    12.8    11.4
2003 05 06    16 46.36   -32 42.1    1.761    2.677   149.1    11.2    11.3
2003 05 11    16 42.14   -32 49.3    1.720    2.666   154.3     9.5    11.2
2003 05 16    16 37.31   -32 53.1    1.685    2.655   159.4     7.7    11.0
2003 05 21    16 31.98   -32 53.2    1.656    2.643   164.0     6.1    10.9
2003 05 26    16 26.28   -32 49.3    1.634    2.632   167.6     4.7    10.8
2003 05 31    16 20.38   -32 41.4    1.618    2.620   168.9     4.3    10.7
2003 06 05    16 14.45   -32 29.5    1.609    2.608   167.2     4.9    10.7
2003 06 10    16 08.69   -32 14.2    1.607    2.597   163.4     6.4    10.8
2003 06 15    16 03.25   -31 55.9    1.612    2.584   158.7     8.2    10.9
2003 06 20    15 58.28   -31 35.3    1.622    2.572   153.5    10.1    11.0
2003 06 25    15 53.91   -31 13.3    1.639    2.560   148.2    12.1    11.1
2003 06 30    15 50.24   -30 50.5    1.661    2.547   143.0    13.9    11.2
2003 07 05    15 47.34   -30 27.9    1.688    2.535   137.8    15.6    11.3
2003 07 10    15 45.26   -30 06.1    1.719    2.522   132.7    17.2    11.4
2003 07 15    15 44.01   -29 45.7    1.755    2.509   127.8    18.7    11.5
2003 07 20    15 43.58   -29 27.0    1.793    2.496   123.0    20.0    11.5
2003 07 25    15 43.97   -29 10.3    1.834    2.483   118.3    21.1    11.6
2003 07 30    15 45.15   -28 55.9    1.878    2.470   113.8    22.1    11.7
2003 08 04    15 47.09   -28 43.8    1.924    2.456   109.5    22.9    11.8
2003 08 09    15 49.76   -28 34.0    1.971    2.443   105.3    23.6    11.8

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