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(196) Philomela

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 2601
  (196) Philomela
Epoch 2007 Apr. 10.0 TT = JDT 2454200.5                 Williams
M  22.52878              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.17947437     Peri.  199.65372     +0.03597330     +0.99205149
a   3.1126796      Node    72.55539     -0.89914850     +0.08479086
e   0.0219947      Incl.    7.26127     -0.43616270     -0.09297496
P   5.49           H    6.54          G   0.15           U   0
From 742 observations at 58 oppositions, 1879-2000, mean residual 0".65.
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 06 10    21 58.00   -20 06.3    2.502    3.056   113.8    17.7    11.9
2007 06 15    21 59.34   -20 16.4    2.441    3.057   118.3    17.0    11.8
2007 06 20    22 00.14   -20 29.4    2.384    3.057   122.9    16.2    11.7
2007 06 25    22 00.39   -20 45.2    2.330    3.058   127.6    15.3    11.6
2007 06 30    22 00.09   -21 03.8    2.279    3.059   132.4    14.2    11.6
2007 07 05    21 59.23   -21 24.9    2.233    3.059   137.4    13.0    11.5
2007 07 10    21 57.81   -21 48.2    2.191    3.060   142.4    11.7    11.4
2007 07 15    21 55.85   -22 13.4    2.154    3.061   147.5    10.3    11.3
2007 07 20    21 53.38   -22 39.8    2.123    3.061   152.6     8.8    11.2
2007 07 25    21 50.46   -23 06.9    2.098    3.062   157.7     7.2    11.1
2007 07 30    21 47.14   -23 34.0    2.079    3.063   162.5     5.7    11.0
2007 08 04    21 43.51   -24 00.5    2.067    3.064   166.8     4.3    10.9
2007 08 09    21 39.64   -24 25.7    2.061    3.064   169.6     3.4    10.9
2007 08 14    21 35.65   -24 48.9    2.063    3.065   169.7     3.4    10.9
2007 08 19    21 31.64   -25 09.5    2.071    3.066   167.0     4.3    10.9
2007 08 24    21 27.73   -25 27.1    2.086    3.067   162.7     5.6    11.0
2007 08 29    21 24.02   -25 41.3    2.108    3.067   157.9     7.1    11.1
2007 09 03    21 20.62   -25 51.9    2.136    3.068   152.8     8.7    11.2
2007 09 08    21 17.59   -25 58.9    2.170    3.069   147.6    10.1    11.3
2007 09 13    21 15.03   -26 02.2    2.210    3.070   142.4    11.5    11.4
2007 09 18    21 12.98   -26 02.0    2.255    3.071   137.3    12.8    11.5
2007 09 23    21 11.48   -25 58.3    2.305    3.072   132.3    14.0    11.6
2007 09 28    21 10.57   -25 51.4    2.359    3.073   127.4    15.0    11.7
2007 10 03    21 10.23   -25 41.5    2.417    3.073   122.6    15.9    11.8
2007 10 08    21 10.48   -25 28.8    2.478    3.074   117.8    16.7    11.8

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