(8) Flora
Orbital Elements
The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 25662
(8) Flora
Epoch 2005 Jan. 30.0 TT = JDT 2453400.5 Goffin
M 66.04403 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.30180260 Peri. 284.95519 +0.80438568 -0.58634361
a 2.2011724 Node 111.03268 +0.57686419 +0.73229227
e 0.1563307 Incl. 5.88699 +0.14209639 +0.34633684
P 3.27 H 6.49 G 0.28 U 0
From 2438 observations at 102 oppositions, 1847-2000, mean residual 0".54.
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.Personalized ephemerides for this object (and others) can be generated using the MPES.
Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2005 01 01 08 00.97 +20 18.5 1.099 2.058 162.4 8.3 8.7 2005 01 06 07 55.69 +20 53.4 1.093 2.067 168.8 5.3 8.6 2005 01 11 07 50.04 +21 28.5 1.094 2.076 175.3 2.2 8.5 2005 01 16 07 44.26 +22 02.8 1.101 2.085 178.0 0.9 8.4 2005 01 21 07 38.61 +22 35.4 1.115 2.094 171.6 3.9 8.6 2005 01 26 07 33.29 +23 05.3 1.136 2.103 165.2 6.9 8.8 2005 01 31 07 28.52 +23 32.2 1.163 2.112 159.0 9.6 9.0 2005 02 05 07 24.45 +23 55.8 1.195 2.121 153.0 12.2 9.1 2005 02 10 07 21.20 +24 15.9 1.233 2.130 147.1 14.6 9.3 2005 02 15 07 18.88 +24 32.6 1.276 2.140 141.5 16.7 9.4 2005 02 20 07 17.50 +24 46.0 1.324 2.149 136.1 18.6 9.6 2005 02 25 07 17.08 +24 56.3 1.375 2.158 131.0 20.3 9.7 2005 03 02 07 17.58 +25 03.7 1.430 2.167 126.0 21.7 9.8 2005 03 07 07 18.96 +25 08.4 1.488 2.176 121.3 22.9 10.0 2005 03 12 07 21.17 +25 10.6 1.549 2.185 116.8 23.9 10.1 2005 03 17 07 24.16 +25 10.2 1.612 2.194 112.5 24.8 10.2 2005 03 22 07 27.85 +25 07.6 1.676 2.204 108.4 25.4 10.3 2005 03 27 07 32.18 +25 02.5 1.742 2.213 104.4 25.9 10.4 2005 04 01 07 37.08 +24 55.3 1.809 2.222 100.6 26.2 10.5 2005 04 06 07 42.50 +24 45.8 1.876 2.230 96.9 26.4 10.6 2005 04 11 07 48.37 +24 34.1 1.945 2.239 93.4 26.5 10.7
