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Minor Planet Center

(2) Pallas

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 24084:
    (2) Pallas
Epoch 2007 Apr. 10.0 TT = JDT 2454200.5  (M-c)          Bowell
M 199.72616              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21359553     Peri.  310.34481     -0.56798424     -0.82020214
a   2.7716684      Node   173.13579     +0.81399410     -0.54753952
e   0.2307589      Incl.   34.84182     -0.12168608     +0.16573754
P   4.61           H    4.13          G   0.11
From 5482 observations at 63 oppositions, 1839-1993, 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
 
2007 06 10    22 48.54   +10 25.7    3.168    3.343    91.0    17.7    10.2
2007 06 15    22 50.56   +10 37.6    3.092    3.338    95.0    17.6    10.2
2007 06 20    22 52.19   +10 46.8    3.017    3.333    99.2    17.5    10.1
2007 06 25    22 53.42   +10 52.8    2.943    3.329   103.4    17.3    10.0
2007 06 30    22 54.23   +10 55.4    2.869    3.324   107.8    16.9    10.0
2007 07 05    22 54.59   +10 54.3    2.797    3.319   112.2    16.5     9.9
2007 07 10    22 54.50   +10 49.0    2.728    3.313   116.8    15.9     9.8
2007 07 15    22 53.95   +10 39.1    2.661    3.308   121.6    15.2     9.7
2007 07 20    22 52.92   +10 24.4    2.597    3.302   126.4    14.3     9.6
2007 07 25    22 51.43   +10 04.4    2.536    3.297   131.3    13.4     9.6
2007 07 30    22 49.49   +09 39.1    2.480    3.291   136.4    12.3     9.5
2007 08 04    22 47.12   +09 08.3    2.429    3.285   141.5    11.1     9.4
2007 08 09    22 44.35   +08 31.8    2.384    3.279   146.7     9.8     9.3
2007 08 14    22 41.24   +07 49.7    2.344    3.273   151.9     8.4     9.2
2007 08 19    22 37.84   +07 02.3    2.311    3.266   156.9     7.0     9.1
2007 08 24    22 34.23   +06 09.9    2.285    3.260   161.5     5.7     9.0
2007 08 29    22 30.49   +05 13.3    2.267    3.253   165.2     4.6     8.9
2007 09 03    22 26.70   +04 13.2    2.255    3.247   167.0     4.0     8.8
2007 09 08    22 22.96   +03 10.3    2.252    3.240   166.2     4.2     8.8
2007 09 13    22 19.35   +02 05.6    2.256    3.233   163.1     5.2     8.9
2007 09 18    22 15.97   +01 00.3    2.268    3.225   158.7     6.5     9.0
2007 09 23    22 12.89   -00 04.7    2.288    3.218   153.7     7.9     9.1
2007 09 28    22 10.19   -01 08.4    2.314    3.211   148.4     9.4     9.1
2007 10 03    22 07.92   -02 10.0    2.347    3.203   143.0    10.8     9.2
2007 10 08    22 06.12   -03 08.8    2.386    3.196   137.6    12.2     9.3
2007 10 13    22 04.82   -04 04.2    2.431    3.188   132.2    13.4     9.4
2007 10 18    22 04.06   -04 55.7    2.480    3.180   126.9    14.5     9.5
2007 10 23    22 03.83   -05 42.9    2.534    3.172   121.7    15.5     9.6
2007 10 28    22 04.13   -06 25.8    2.591    3.164   116.6    16.3     9.6
2007 11 02    22 04.96   -07 04.1    2.652    3.155   111.6    17.0     9.7
2007 11 07    22 06.30   -07 38.0    2.715    3.147   106.8    17.6     9.8
2007 11 12    22 08.12   -08 07.4    2.779    3.138   102.0    18.0     9.8
2007 11 17    22 10.42   -08 32.5    2.845    3.129    97.4    18.3     9.9

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