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Minor Planet Center

(128) Nemesis

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 25186:
  (128) Nemesis
Epoch 2003 Dec. 27.0 TT = JDT 2453000.5                 Goffin
M 303.12079              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21617258     Peri.  302.58784     +0.94030795     -0.32342531
a   2.7495965      Node    76.47116     +0.33718147     +0.84316263
e   0.1277523      Incl.    6.25382     +0.04614771     +0.42950301
P   4.56           H    7.49          G   0.15           U   0
From 353 observations at 64 oppositions, 1872-1994, mean residual 1".01.
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 08 13    02 16.11   +05 58.1    1.908    2.402   106.6    23.8    11.9
2004 08 18    02 19.31   +06 05.9    1.851    2.401   110.5    23.3    11.8
2004 08 23    02 21.94   +06 10.8    1.795    2.400   114.7    22.5    11.7
2004 08 28    02 23.96   +06 12.7    1.742    2.400   118.9    21.6    11.6
2004 09 02    02 25.34   +06 11.7    1.691    2.399   123.4    20.6    11.5
2004 09 07    02 26.04   +06 07.9    1.643    2.399   128.0    19.3    11.4
2004 09 12    02 26.03   +06 01.3    1.598    2.399   132.8    17.9    11.3
2004 09 17    02 25.29   +05 52.2    1.557    2.399   137.8    16.4    11.2
2004 09 22    02 23.84   +05 40.9    1.520    2.399   142.9    14.6    11.1
2004 09 27    02 21.69   +05 27.7    1.488    2.399   148.2    12.7    11.0
2004 10 02    02 18.90   +05 13.1    1.461    2.399   153.6    10.7    10.9
2004 10 07    02 15.54   +04 57.7    1.440    2.400   159.1     8.5    10.8
2004 10 12    02 11.69   +04 42.0    1.425    2.401   164.4     6.4    10.7
2004 10 17    02 07.48   +04 26.7    1.416    2.402   169.2     4.5    10.5
2004 10 22    02 03.05   +04 12.8    1.413    2.403   172.1     3.3    10.5
2004 10 27    01 58.56   +04 00.7    1.418    2.404   171.0     3.7    10.5
2004 11 01    01 54.17   +03 51.3    1.429    2.406   166.8     5.4    10.6
2004 11 06    01 50.00   +03 45.1    1.446    2.407   161.7     7.4    10.7
2004 11 11    01 46.20   +03 42.4    1.470    2.409   156.2     9.6    10.9
2004 11 16    01 42.88   +03 43.6    1.500    2.411   150.6    11.6    11.0
2004 11 21    01 40.14   +03 49.0    1.535    2.413   145.2    13.5    11.1
2004 11 26    01 38.05   +03 58.5    1.576    2.415   139.8    15.3    11.2
2004 12 01    01 36.64   +04 12.0    1.621    2.418   134.6    16.9    11.4
2004 12 06    01 35.91   +04 29.4    1.671    2.420   129.5    18.3    11.5
2004 12 11    01 35.89   +04 50.5    1.724    2.423   124.6    19.5    11.6
2004 12 16    01 36.56   +05 15.1    1.780    2.426   119.9    20.6    11.7
2004 12 21    01 37.90   +05 42.8    1.840    2.429   115.3    21.5    11.8

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