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Minor Planet Center

(28) Bellona

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 50329
   (28) Bellona
Epoch 2007 Apr. 10.0 TT = JDT 2454200.5                 Goffin
M  57.80794              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21283595     Peri.  342.60799     -0.60565950     -0.79005032
a   2.7782589      Node   144.50065     +0.74810821     -0.60597346
e   0.1482296      Incl.    9.40105     +0.27112853     -0.09282594
P   4.63           H    7.09          G   0.15           U   0
From 1939 observations at 113 oppositions, 1854-2003, 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 21    13 37.15   -03 16.4    2.184    2.499    96.7    23.0    11.9
2007 01 26    13 41.35   -03 15.7    2.126    2.505   100.8    22.7    11.8
2007 01 31    13 45.06   -03 11.0    2.069    2.511   105.0    22.3    11.7
2007 02 05    13 48.23   -03 02.1    2.014    2.518   109.3    21.7    11.7
2007 02 10    13 50.83   -02 49.0    1.960    2.524   113.8    21.0    11.6
2007 02 15    13 52.83   -02 31.6    1.908    2.531   118.4    20.1    11.5
2007 02 20    13 54.18   -02 10.0    1.859    2.538   123.1    19.0    11.4
2007 02 25    13 54.87   -01 44.4    1.813    2.545   128.0    17.9    11.3
2007 03 02    13 54.89   -01 15.1    1.771    2.552   133.0    16.5    11.3
2007 03 07    13 54.25   -00 42.4    1.733    2.559   138.1    15.0    11.2
2007 03 12    13 52.95   -00 06.7    1.700    2.566   143.3    13.4    11.1
2007 03 17    13 51.02   +00 31.2    1.671    2.573   148.5    11.7    11.0
2007 03 22    13 48.52   +01 10.5    1.649    2.580   153.6     9.9    10.9
2007 03 27    13 45.52   +01 50.5    1.633    2.587   158.6     8.1    10.8
2007 04 01    13 42.12   +02 29.9    1.623    2.594   163.0     6.5    10.7
2007 04 06    13 38.43   +03 08.0    1.619    2.602   166.2     5.2    10.6
2007 04 11    13 34.55   +03 43.6    1.622    2.609   167.4     4.8    10.6
2007 04 16    13 30.62   +04 15.9    1.632    2.617   165.8     5.4    10.7
2007 04 21    13 26.77   +04 44.1    1.649    2.624   162.4     6.7    10.8
2007 04 26    13 23.11   +05 07.6    1.672    2.632   157.9     8.3    10.9
2007 05 01    13 19.76   +05 25.8    1.701    2.639   153.1     9.9    11.0
2007 05 06    13 16.79   +05 38.7    1.736    2.647   148.1    11.6    11.1
2007 05 11    13 14.29   +05 46.1    1.777    2.654   143.1    13.2    11.2
2007 05 16    13 12.30   +05 48.2    1.822    2.662   138.2    14.7    11.3
2007 05 21    13 10.86   +05 45.0    1.872    2.670   133.3    16.0    11.5
2007 05 26    13 09.99   +05 37.0    1.926    2.677   128.6    17.2    11.6
2007 05 31    13 09.69   +05 24.4    1.983    2.685   124.0    18.2    11.7
2007 06 05    13 09.95   +05 07.7    2.044    2.693   119.6    19.1    11.8
2007 06 10    13 10.75   +04 47.3    2.107    2.701   115.2    19.9    11.9

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