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(19) Fortuna

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 53552
   (19) Fortuna
Epoch 2007 Apr. 10.0 TT = JDT 2454200.5                 Goffin
M 141.06664              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.25838339     Peri.  181.93133     +0.83580798     -0.54883577
a   2.4413291      Node   211.36930     +0.50408511     +0.77745387
e   0.1592703      Incl.    1.57348     +0.21753900     +0.30715594
P   3.81           H    7.13          G   0.10           U   0
From 2354 observations at 94 oppositions, 1852-2003, mean residual 0".57.
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 01 31    12 27.82   -04 30.0    2.032    2.692   122.4    18.0    11.8
2007 02 05    12 27.35   -04 27.5    1.981    2.698   127.6    16.8    11.7
2007 02 10    12 26.24   -04 20.8    1.933    2.704   133.0    15.5    11.6
2007 02 15    12 24.48   -04 09.7    1.890    2.710   138.5    14.0    11.5
2007 02 20    12 22.11   -03 54.3    1.851    2.716   144.2    12.3    11.4
2007 02 25    12 19.16   -03 34.9    1.818    2.721   150.1    10.5    11.3
2007 03 02    12 15.71   -03 11.8    1.791    2.727   156.0     8.5    11.2
2007 03 07    12 11.84   -02 45.6    1.771    2.732   162.1     6.4    11.1
2007 03 12    12 07.63   -02 16.8    1.757    2.737   168.2     4.3    10.9
2007 03 17    12 03.21   -01 46.1    1.750    2.742   174.3     2.1    10.8
2007 03 22    11 58.70   -01 14.5    1.751    2.747   178.6     0.5    10.6
2007 03 27    11 54.23   -00 42.8    1.759    2.752   173.0     2.5    10.8
2007 04 01    11 49.94   -00 11.9    1.774    2.756   166.9     4.7    11.0
2007 04 06    11 45.92   +00 17.4    1.796    2.761   160.9     6.8    11.1
2007 04 11    11 42.29   +00 44.4    1.824    2.765   155.0     8.8    11.3
2007 04 16    11 39.12   +01 08.5    1.859    2.769   149.2    10.7    11.4
2007 04 21    11 36.47   +01 29.3    1.900    2.773   143.6    12.4    11.5
2007 04 26    11 34.40   +01 46.4    1.946    2.777   138.1    14.0    11.6
2007 05 01    11 32.93   +01 59.6    1.996    2.781   132.8    15.4    11.8

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