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Minor Planet Center

(216) Kleopatra

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 31001:
  (216) Kleopatra
Epoch 2005 Jan. 30.0 TT = JDT 2453400.5                 Goffin
M  55.25948              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21117632     Peri.  179.09920     +0.82119449     -0.55504695
a   2.7927961      Node   215.67216     +0.52212826     +0.82453820
e   0.2519224      Incl.   13.13557     +0.23026439     +0.10981638
P   4.67           H    7.30          G   0.29           U   0
From 1272 observations at 69 oppositions, 1880-1997, mean residual 0".52.
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    07 38.09   +00 41.5    1.537    2.461   154.4    10.0    10.7
2005 01 06    07 33.47   +00 38.9    1.538    2.474   157.3     8.8    10.7
2005 01 11    07 28.75   +00 42.4    1.544    2.487   158.9     8.2    10.7
2005 01 16    07 24.10   +00 51.5    1.558    2.500   158.8     8.2    10.7
2005 01 21    07 19.68   +01 05.7    1.578    2.513   157.1     8.8    10.8
2005 01 26    07 15.60   +01 24.5    1.604    2.527   154.2     9.8    10.9
2005 01 31    07 11.98   +01 47.1    1.636    2.540   150.4    11.1    11.0
2005 02 05    07 08.91   +02 12.7    1.675    2.553   146.1    12.4    11.1
2005 02 10    07 06.47   +02 40.5    1.719    2.567   141.6    13.8    11.2
2005 02 15    07 04.70   +03 09.9    1.768    2.580   137.0    15.1    11.3
2005 02 20    07 03.63   +03 40.0    1.822    2.593   132.4    16.4    11.4
2005 02 25    07 03.25   +04 10.3    1.880    2.607   127.8    17.5    11.5
2005 03 02    07 03.55   +04 40.1    1.942    2.620   123.3    18.4    11.6
2005 03 07    07 04.51   +05 09.0    2.007    2.634   118.9    19.3    11.7
2005 03 12    07 06.10   +05 36.7    2.075    2.647   114.6    20.0    11.8

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