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Minor Planet Center

(11) Parthenope

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 24085:
   (11) Parthenope
Epoch 2005 Jan. 30.0 TT = JDT 2453400.5  (M-c)          Bowell
M  24.90092              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.25657427     Peri.  195.41160     +0.77696978     +0.62611874
a   2.4527916      Node   125.63639     -0.56873271     +0.74273936
e   0.0998489      Incl.    4.62425     -0.26992788     +0.23730477
P   3.84           H    6.55          G   0.15
From 2613 observations at 61 oppositions, 1850-1993, mean residual 0".57.
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 09 18    05 21.87   +18 15.0    2.165    2.452    94.2    24.1    11.3
2005 09 23    05 26.08   +18 12.7    2.108    2.458    98.0    23.8    11.2
2005 09 28    05 29.72   +18 09.4    2.051    2.463   102.1    23.4    11.2
2005 10 03    05 32.75   +18 05.4    1.994    2.469   106.2    22.9    11.1
2005 10 08    05 35.12   +18 00.7    1.939    2.474   110.6    22.2    11.0
2005 10 13    05 36.80   +17 55.5    1.886    2.480   115.1    21.4    10.9
2005 10 18    05 37.76   +17 50.1    1.835    2.485   119.8    20.4    10.9
2005 10 23    05 37.96   +17 44.5    1.786    2.490   124.7    19.2    10.8
2005 10 28    05 37.37   +17 39.0    1.740    2.496   129.8    17.8    10.7
2005 11 02    05 35.98   +17 33.6    1.698    2.501   135.1    16.3    10.6
2005 11 07    05 33.81   +17 28.6    1.661    2.506   140.5    14.6    10.5
2005 11 12    05 30.89   +17 23.9    1.628    2.512   146.2    12.7    10.4
2005 11 17    05 27.28   +17 19.8    1.601    2.517   151.9    10.7    10.2
2005 11 22    05 23.06   +17 16.2    1.580    2.522   157.8     8.5    10.1
2005 11 27    05 18.34   +17 13.2    1.565    2.527   163.7     6.3    10.0
2005 12 02    05 13.24   +17 11.0    1.556    2.532   169.3     4.1     9.9
2005 12 07    05 07.94   +17 09.7    1.555    2.537   173.7     2.4     9.8
2005 12 12    05 02.60   +17 09.4    1.562    2.542   173.3     2.6     9.8
2005 12 17    04 57.39   +17 10.2    1.575    2.547   168.6     4.4    10.0
2005 12 22    04 52.46   +17 12.2    1.595    2.552   162.9     6.5    10.1
2005 12 27    04 47.96   +17 15.6    1.622    2.557   157.0     8.7    10.2

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