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Minor Planet Center

(103) Hera

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 8362
  (103) Hera
Epoch 2005 Jan. 30.0 TT = JDT 2453400.5                 Goffin
M 279.68853              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.22188630     Peri.  189.97343     +0.83101184     +0.55240939
a   2.7021890      Node   136.28457     -0.50362398     +0.79702223
e   0.0792552      Incl.    5.42140     -0.23618257     +0.24412995
P   4.44           H    7.66          G   0.15           U   0
From 497 observations at 76 oppositions, 1868-2000, mean residual 0".56.
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 05 11    18 28.11   -16 47.1    1.803    2.601   133.2    16.4    11.9
2005 05 16    18 27.09   -16 43.3    1.755    2.598   138.2    15.0    11.8
2005 05 21    18 25.39   -16 40.8    1.711    2.594   143.3    13.5    11.7
2005 05 26    18 23.05   -16 39.8    1.671    2.590   148.6    11.8    11.6
2005 05 31    18 20.10   -16 40.4    1.637    2.586   153.9     9.9    11.4
2005 06 05    18 16.60   -16 42.4    1.609    2.583   159.3     8.0    11.3
2005 06 10    18 12.65   -16 46.1    1.586    2.579   164.6     6.0    11.2
2005 06 15    18 08.35   -16 51.3    1.570    2.576   169.6     4.1    11.1
2005 06 20    18 03.84   -16 57.9    1.560    2.572   173.2     2.7    11.0
2005 06 25    17 59.25   -17 05.8    1.557    2.569   172.7     2.9    11.0
2005 06 30    17 54.71   -17 15.0    1.561    2.565   168.7     4.5    11.1
2005 07 05    17 50.37   -17 25.3    1.571    2.562   163.6     6.4    11.2
2005 07 10    17 46.36   -17 36.7    1.587    2.559   158.2     8.5    11.3
2005 07 15    17 42.80   -17 49.0    1.609    2.555   152.8    10.5    11.4
2005 07 20    17 39.78   -18 02.2    1.636    2.552   147.5    12.4    11.5
2005 07 25    17 37.37   -18 16.0    1.669    2.549   142.2    14.1    11.6
2005 07 30    17 35.63   -18 30.5    1.707    2.546   137.1    15.7    11.7
2005 08 04    17 34.59   -18 45.4    1.748    2.543   132.2    17.2    11.8
2005 08 09    17 34.27   -19 00.8    1.794    2.540   127.3    18.5    11.9

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