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IAU Minor Planet Center

Minor Planet Center

(67) Asia

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 26379:
   (67) Asia
Epoch 2003 Dec. 27.0 TT = JDT 2453000.5                 Goffin
M 254.54781              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.26148206     Peri.  106.21029     +0.62646027     +0.77839735
a   2.4220036      Node   202.72999     -0.74922481     +0.58699819
e   0.1844078      Incl.    6.02554     -0.21496446     +0.22255494
P   3.77           H    8.28          G   0.15           U   0
From 412 observations at 63 oppositions, 1861-1994, mean residual 1".00.
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
 
2004 03 26    14 26.31   -13 56.0    1.544    2.441   146.8    12.9    11.9
2004 03 31    14 23.82   -13 29.3    1.501    2.431   152.5    10.9    11.8
2004 04 05    14 20.73   -12 58.7    1.463    2.421   158.3     8.8    11.6
2004 04 10    14 17.10   -12 24.8    1.431    2.411   164.2     6.5    11.5
2004 04 15    14 13.04   -11 48.1    1.406    2.401   170.2     4.1    11.3
2004 04 20    14 08.67   -11 09.5    1.387    2.390   176.0     1.7    11.1
2004 04 25    14 04.14   -10 29.8    1.375    2.380   176.8     1.4    11.0
2004 04 30    13 59.61   -09 50.2    1.369    2.370   171.1     3.8    11.2
2004 05 05    13 55.23   -09 11.8    1.370    2.359   165.0     6.3    11.3
2004 05 10    13 51.15   -08 35.5    1.378    2.349   159.1     8.8    11.4
2004 05 15    13 47.48   -08 02.4    1.391    2.339   153.2    11.2    11.5
2004 05 20    13 44.35   -07 33.1    1.410    2.328   147.5    13.5    11.6
2004 05 25    13 41.83   -07 08.3    1.434    2.318   142.0    15.6    11.7
2004 05 30    13 39.99   -06 48.6    1.463    2.307   136.7    17.5    11.8
2004 06 04    13 38.87   -06 33.9    1.495    2.297   131.5    19.3    11.9

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