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(78) Diana

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 77281
   (78) Diana
Epoch 2007 Apr. 10.0 TT = JDT 2454200.5                 MPC
M  17.05133              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.23244185     Peri.  151.42433     -0.57610412     -0.81460858
a   2.6197499      Node   333.58166     +0.71825195     -0.46527767
e   0.2072468      Incl.    8.68811     +0.39015149     -0.34630847
P   4.24           H    8.09          G   0.08           U   0
From 651 observations at 57 oppositions, 1863-2005, mean residual 0".80.
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 01    08 59.24   +26 56.6    1.175    2.081   149.2    14.0    10.9
2007 01 06    08 55.93   +26 58.2    1.148    2.080   154.7    11.7    10.8
2007 01 11    08 51.82   +26 58.9    1.126    2.079   160.2     9.2    10.6
2007 01 16    08 47.03   +26 57.9    1.110    2.078   165.6     6.8    10.5
2007 01 21    08 41.75   +26 54.3    1.101    2.077   170.1     4.7    10.3
2007 01 26    08 36.22   +26 47.4    1.097    2.077   172.0     3.8    10.3
2007 01 31    08 30.68   +26 36.7    1.100    2.077   169.7     4.9    10.3
2007 02 05    08 25.37   +26 22.0    1.109    2.077   165.0     7.1    10.5
2007 02 10    08 20.49   +26 03.6    1.125    2.078   159.6     9.5    10.6
2007 02 15    08 16.24   +25 41.6    1.146    2.079   154.1    12.0    10.8
2007 02 20    08 12.77   +25 16.5    1.173    2.081   148.6    14.4    10.9
2007 02 25    08 10.19   +24 48.6    1.204    2.083   143.2    16.5    11.1
2007 03 02    08 08.54   +24 18.7    1.241    2.085   138.0    18.5    11.2
2007 03 07    08 07.85   +23 46.9    1.281    2.088   133.0    20.3    11.3
2007 03 12    08 08.09   +23 13.9    1.325    2.091   128.2    21.9    11.5
2007 03 17    08 09.23   +22 39.7    1.372    2.094   123.6    23.3    11.6
2007 03 22    08 11.22   +22 04.6    1.422    2.098   119.2    24.5    11.7
2007 03 27    08 14.01   +21 28.6    1.475    2.101   115.1    25.5    11.8
2007 04 01    08 17.52   +20 51.7    1.529    2.106   111.1    26.3    11.9

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