(1) Ceres
Orbital Elements
The following orbital elements are taken from MPO110568
(1) Ceres
Epoch 2007 Apr. 10.0 TT = JDT 2454200.5 MPC
M 215.80100 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.21425752 Peri. 73.15069 -0.87931942 -0.44043218
a 2.7659565 Node 80.40696 +0.33611761 -0.84343503
e 0.0797602 Incl. 10.58671 +0.33737562 -0.30763102
P 4.60 H 3.34 G 0.12 U 0
From 6063 observations at 94 oppositions, 1802-2006, mean residual 0".61.
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 2007 08 19 03 23.17 +09 14.5 2.611 2.877 94.7 20.5 8.8 2007 08 24 03 26.42 +09 20.5 2.542 2.873 98.6 20.4 8.7 2007 08 29 03 29.22 +09 24.7 2.473 2.870 102.7 20.1 8.6 2007 09 03 03 31.55 +09 26.9 2.405 2.866 106.9 19.7 8.6 2007 09 08 03 33.37 +09 27.4 2.339 2.863 111.2 19.2 8.5 2007 09 13 03 34.63 +09 26.1 2.275 2.859 115.7 18.5 8.4 2007 09 18 03 35.32 +09 23.1 2.213 2.855 120.3 17.7 8.3 2007 09 23 03 35.39 +09 18.7 2.154 2.852 125.1 16.7 8.2 2007 09 28 03 34.85 +09 12.9 2.098 2.848 130.0 15.6 8.1 2007 10 03 03 33.67 +09 05.8 2.046 2.844 135.1 14.4 8.0 2007 10 08 03 31.85 +08 57.9 1.999 2.840 140.3 13.0 7.9 2007 10 13 03 29.41 +08 49.2 1.956 2.837 145.7 11.4 7.8 2007 10 18 03 26.38 +08 40.1 1.919 2.833 151.1 9.8 7.7 2007 10 23 03 22.84 +08 31.0 1.888 2.829 156.5 8.0 7.6 2007 10 28 03 18.84 +08 22.3 1.864 2.825 161.9 6.3 7.5 2007 11 02 03 14.49 +08 14.3 1.846 2.821 166.7 4.6 7.3 2007 11 07 03 09.88 +08 07.6 1.836 2.817 170.2 3.4 7.3 2007 11 12 03 05.15 +08 02.4 1.832 2.813 170.5 3.3 7.2 2007 11 17 03 00.44 +07 59.3 1.836 2.809 167.4 4.4 7.3 2007 11 22 02 55.86 +07 58.6 1.847 2.805 162.6 6.0 7.4 2007 11 27 02 51.55 +08 00.5 1.865 2.801 157.2 7.8 7.5 2007 12 02 02 47.61 +08 05.3 1.890 2.797 151.7 9.6 7.6 2007 12 07 02 44.12 +08 13.0 1.921 2.793 146.1 11.3 7.7 2007 12 12 02 41.18 +08 23.8 1.958 2.789 140.6 13.0 7.8 2007 12 17 02 38.84 +08 37.7 2.000 2.785 135.1 14.4 7.9 2007 12 22 02 37.13 +08 54.5 2.047 2.781 129.8 15.8 8.0 2007 12 27 02 36.06 +09 14.2 2.097 2.777 124.7 16.9 8.1
