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Minor Planet Center

(313) Chaldaea

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 31778:
  (313) Chaldaea
Epoch 2002 Nov. 22.0 TT = JDT 2452600.5                 Goffin
M 356.42162              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.26907976     Peri.  315.79143     -0.67797880     -0.73499686
a   2.3761947      Node   176.83270     +0.71792832     -0.66534007
e   0.1802728      Incl.   11.64399     +0.15787233     -0.13077537
P   3.66           H    8.90          G   0.15           U   0
From 633 observations at 62 oppositions, 1891-1997, mean residual 0".56.
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 01 31    11 34.08   -05 17.7    1.154    1.970   134.0    21.1    11.7
2003 02 05    11 33.96   -04 50.8    1.119    1.974   139.3    19.0    11.6
2003 02 10    11 33.05   -04 15.2    1.089    1.978   144.7    16.7    11.5
2003 02 15    11 31.40   -03 31.0    1.063    1.983   150.4    14.2    11.3
2003 02 20    11 29.09   -02 38.7    1.043    1.988   156.3    11.5    11.2
2003 02 25    11 26.22   -01 39.4    1.027    1.993   162.4     8.7    11.0
2003 03 02    11 22.93   -00 34.4    1.018    1.999   168.5     5.7    10.9
2003 03 07    11 19.37   +00 34.7    1.015    2.005   174.3     2.8    10.7
2003 03 12    11 15.75   +01 45.6    1.018    2.011   176.7     1.6    10.7
2003 03 17    11 12.25   +02 56.3    1.027    2.017   171.7     4.1    10.9
2003 03 22    11 09.03   +04 04.8    1.043    2.024   165.7     7.0    11.0
2003 03 27    11 06.24   +05 09.2    1.065    2.030   159.8     9.8    11.2
2003 04 01    11 04.01   +06 08.2    1.092    2.037   153.9    12.4    11.4
2003 04 06    11 02.44   +07 00.6    1.125    2.045   148.3    14.9    11.5
2003 04 11    11 01.58   +07 45.6    1.162    2.052   142.9    17.1    11.7

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