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Minor Planet Center

(37) Fides

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 31001:
   (37) Fides
Epoch 2005 Jan. 30.0 TT = JDT 2453400.5                 Goffin
M 228.46741              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.22968198     Peri.   62.81269     +0.33847954     -0.94094832
a   2.6406942      Node     7.41310     +0.84324381     +0.30005393
e   0.1767709      Incl.    3.07376     +0.41757812     +0.15679253
P   4.29           H    7.29          G   0.24           U   0
From 1399 observations at 97 oppositions, 1855-1996, mean residual 0".55.
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 06 30    22 17.90   -14 10.2    2.041    2.774   127.0    17.0    11.9
2005 07 05    22 17.56   -14 14.9    1.981    2.765   131.8    15.9    11.8
2005 07 10    22 16.61   -14 22.7    1.926    2.757   136.8    14.6    11.6
2005 07 15    22 15.03   -14 33.4    1.875    2.748   142.0    13.2    11.5
2005 07 20    22 12.86   -14 46.8    1.828    2.739   147.3    11.6    11.4
2005 07 25    22 10.11   -15 02.7    1.787    2.730   152.7     9.8    11.3
2005 07 30    22 06.81   -15 20.6    1.752    2.721   158.3     7.9    11.2
2005 08 04    22 03.04   -15 40.0    1.723    2.712   164.0     5.9    11.1
2005 08 09    21 58.88   -16 00.2    1.700    2.703   169.6     3.9    10.9
2005 08 14    21 54.44   -16 20.6    1.684    2.694   174.8     1.9    10.8
2005 08 19    21 49.84   -16 40.5    1.675    2.685   176.1     1.5    10.7
2005 08 24    21 45.20   -16 59.2    1.672    2.676   171.3     3.3    10.8
2005 08 29    21 40.66   -17 16.1    1.676    2.667   165.7     5.4    10.9
2005 09 03    21 36.35   -17 30.7    1.687    2.657   159.9     7.5    11.0
2005 09 08    21 32.39   -17 42.6    1.705    2.648   154.2     9.5    11.1
2005 09 13    21 28.91   -17 51.4    1.728    2.639   148.5    11.5    11.2
2005 09 18    21 25.98   -17 57.0    1.756    2.629   143.0    13.3    11.3
2005 09 23    21 23.67   -17 59.3    1.790    2.620   137.6    15.0    11.4
2005 09 28    21 22.02   -17 58.4    1.828    2.611   132.3    16.5    11.5
2005 10 03    21 21.07   -17 54.2    1.870    2.601   127.2    17.8    11.6
2005 10 08    21 20.82   -17 46.9    1.916    2.592   122.3    19.0    11.6
2005 10 13    21 21.26   -17 36.5    1.965    2.582   117.5    20.0    11.7
2005 10 18    21 22.38   -17 23.1    2.016    2.573   112.9    20.9    11.8
2005 10 23    21 24.15   -17 07.0    2.069    2.563   108.4    21.6    11.8
2005 10 28    21 26.54   -16 48.2    2.123    2.554   104.1    22.2    11.9

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