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(8) Flora

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 25662
    (8) Flora
Epoch 2007 Apr. 10.0 TT = JDT 2454200.5                 Goffin
M 306.89266              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.30181959     Peri.  285.47620     +0.79973627     -0.59265694
a   2.2010898      Node   110.96318     +0.58262191     +0.72767313
e   0.1562843      Incl.    5.88900     +0.14482272     +0.34532531
P   3.27           H    6.49          G   0.28           U   0
From 2438 observations at 102 oppositions, 1847-2000, mean residual 0".54.
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 20.22   +10 43.6    1.487    1.870    95.0    32.6     9.9
2007 08 24    03 27.83   +10 56.9    1.437    1.868    97.9    32.4     9.8
2007 08 29    03 35.00   +11 07.0    1.388    1.865   100.9    32.1     9.7
2007 09 03    03 41.70   +11 14.1    1.340    1.863   104.1    31.7     9.6
2007 09 08    03 47.84   +11 18.0    1.292    1.861   107.4    31.1     9.5
2007 09 13    03 53.36   +11 19.0    1.246    1.860   110.9    30.4     9.4
2007 09 18    03 58.19   +11 17.2    1.201    1.859   114.5    29.5     9.3
2007 09 23    04 02.26   +11 12.8    1.158    1.858   118.3    28.4     9.2
2007 09 28    04 05.51   +11 06.1    1.117    1.857   122.3    27.1     9.1
2007 10 03    04 07.88   +10 57.3    1.078    1.857   126.6    25.6     9.0
2007 10 08    04 09.30   +10 46.7    1.041    1.857   131.1    23.9     8.9
2007 10 13    04 09.71   +10 34.9    1.008    1.858   135.7    22.0     8.8
2007 10 18    04 09.11   +10 22.2    0.977    1.859   140.7    19.9     8.6
2007 10 23    04 07.49   +10 09.4    0.951    1.860   145.8    17.5     8.5
2007 10 28    04 04.92   +09 57.0    0.929    1.861   151.0    15.0     8.4
2007 11 02    04 01.46   +09 45.6    0.911    1.863   156.4    12.3     8.3
2007 11 07    03 57.24   +09 36.0    0.898    1.865   161.6     9.7     8.1
2007 11 12    03 52.44   +09 28.9    0.891    1.868   166.3     7.2     8.0
2007 11 17    03 47.28   +09 25.1    0.890    1.871   169.4     5.6     8.0
2007 11 22    03 42.00   +09 25.1    0.894    1.874   169.3     5.6     8.0
2007 11 27    03 36.85   +09 29.3    0.904    1.877   166.1     7.2     8.1
2007 12 02    03 32.05   +09 38.0    0.920    1.881   161.4     9.6     8.2
2007 12 07    03 27.81   +09 51.2    0.941    1.885   156.2    12.2     8.4
2007 12 12    03 24.28   +10 09.0    0.968    1.889   150.8    14.7     8.5
2007 12 17    03 21.61   +10 31.1    0.999    1.894   145.5    17.1     8.6
2007 12 22    03 19.87   +10 57.1    1.035    1.899   140.3    19.3     8.8
2007 12 27    03 19.08   +11 26.7    1.075    1.904   135.3    21.3     8.9

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