(21) Lutetia
Orbital Elements
The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 2601(21) Lutetia Epoch 2007 Apr. 10.0 TT = JDT 2454200.5 Williams M 283.17219 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25922363 Peri. 249.97293 +0.87232586 +0.48606682 a 2.4360507 Node 80.91297 -0.42622745 +0.80891397 e 0.1634525 Incl. 3.06447 -0.23953654 +0.33075253 P 3.80 H 7.35 G 0.11 U 0 From 814 observations at 58 oppositions, 1866-2000, mean residual 0".67.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 03 22 16 48.54 -20 27.5 1.951 2.444 107.6 22.9 11.9 2007 03 27 16 51.80 -20 33.8 1.882 2.435 111.8 22.4 11.8 2007 04 01 16 54.44 -20 39.0 1.814 2.426 116.1 21.7 11.7 2007 04 06 16 56.43 -20 43.4 1.749 2.417 120.5 20.9 11.6 2007 04 11 16 57.72 -20 47.0 1.687 2.408 125.2 19.9 11.4 2007 04 16 16 58.26 -20 49.8 1.628 2.399 129.9 18.7 11.3 2007 04 21 16 58.03 -20 51.9 1.572 2.389 134.9 17.3 11.2 2007 04 26 16 57.01 -20 53.4 1.520 2.380 140.0 15.8 11.0 2007 05 01 16 55.20 -20 54.1 1.473 2.371 145.2 14.0 10.9 2007 05 06 16 52.62 -20 54.2 1.430 2.362 150.7 12.1 10.8 2007 05 11 16 49.32 -20 53.5 1.393 2.353 156.3 9.9 10.6 2007 05 16 16 45.36 -20 52.1 1.361 2.344 162.0 7.7 10.4 2007 05 21 16 40.86 -20 50.0 1.336 2.335 167.9 5.2 10.3 2007 05 26 16 35.94 -20 47.3 1.316 2.326 173.8 2.7 10.1 2007 05 31 16 30.78 -20 44.0 1.303 2.317 178.9 0.5 9.9 2007 06 05 16 25.54 -20 40.4 1.296 2.308 174.0 2.6 10.0 2007 06 10 16 20.39 -20 36.8 1.296 2.299 168.1 5.2 10.2 2007 06 15 16 15.50 -20 33.4 1.301 2.290 162.2 7.8 10.3 2007 06 20 16 11.05 -20 30.8 1.313 2.281 156.4 10.3 10.4 2007 06 25 16 07.18 -20 29.2 1.330 2.272 150.7 12.6 10.5 2007 06 30 16 03.98 -20 29.1 1.353 2.263 145.2 14.8 10.7 2007 07 05 16 01.55 -20 30.6 1.380 2.255 139.9 16.9 10.8 2007 07 10 15 59.91 -20 34.0 1.411 2.246 134.8 18.7 10.9 2007 07 15 15 59.12 -20 39.4 1.446 2.237 129.8 20.4 11.0 2007 07 20 15 59.17 -20 46.8 1.484 2.229 125.1 21.9 11.1 2007 07 25 16 00.06 -20 56.2 1.525 2.221 120.6 23.2 11.2 2007 07 30 16 01.76 -21 07.5 1.568 2.212 116.2 24.3 11.2 2007 08 04 16 04.24 -21 20.4 1.613 2.204 112.0 25.3 11.3 2007 08 09 16 07.46 -21 34.7 1.659 2.196 108.0 26.0 11.4 2007 08 14 16 11.39 -21 50.3 1.707 2.188 104.2 26.7 11.5 2007 08 19 16 16.00 -22 06.8 1.756 2.181 100.5 27.2 11.5 2007 08 24 16 21.24 -22 23.9 1.806 2.173 96.9 27.5 11.6 2007 08 29 16 27.07 -22 41.4 1.855 2.165 93.5 27.7 11.7
