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Minor Planet Center

(230) Athamantis

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 31001:
  (230) Athamantis
Epoch 2007 Apr. 10.0 TT = JDT 2454200.5                 Goffin
M 284.06539              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.26806095     Peri.  139.82830     +0.93338716     -0.32959810
a   2.3822117      Node   239.96046     +0.27254795     +0.90839543
e   0.0608797      Incl.    9.43857     +0.23346524     +0.25726026
P   3.68           H    7.35          G   0.27           U   0
From 797 observations at 64 oppositions, 1882-1996, mean residual 0".53.
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 05 31    22 20.36   +00 29.5    2.055    2.322    92.0    25.9    11.8
2007 06 05    22 24.86   +01 21.0    1.993    2.319    95.3    25.8    11.7
2007 06 10    22 28.92   +02 11.3    1.933    2.316    98.7    25.7    11.6
2007 06 15    22 32.52   +02 59.9    1.873    2.313   102.3    25.4    11.5
2007 06 20    22 35.62   +03 46.7    1.814    2.310   105.9    25.0    11.5
2007 06 25    22 38.18   +04 31.1    1.756    2.307   109.7    24.5    11.4
2007 06 30    22 40.18   +05 12.8    1.700    2.304   113.6    23.9    11.3
2007 07 05    22 41.59   +05 51.5    1.646    2.301   117.6    23.1    11.2
2007 07 10    22 42.36   +06 26.5    1.595    2.298   121.7    22.1    11.1
2007 07 15    22 42.47   +06 57.5    1.545    2.295   126.0    21.0    11.0
2007 07 20    22 41.90   +07 23.6    1.499    2.292   130.4    19.7    10.9
2007 07 25    22 40.65   +07 44.6    1.456    2.289   134.9    18.3    10.8
2007 07 30    22 38.74   +07 59.8    1.418    2.287   139.5    16.8    10.7
2007 08 04    22 36.20   +08 08.9    1.383    2.284   144.1    15.1    10.6
2007 08 09    22 33.06   +08 11.3    1.353    2.281   148.8    13.3    10.5
2007 08 14    22 29.43   +08 06.8    1.328    2.279   153.3    11.5    10.4
2007 08 19    22 25.39   +07 55.5    1.308    2.276   157.4     9.8    10.3
2007 08 24    22 21.09   +07 37.5    1.295    2.274   160.8     8.4    10.2
2007 08 29    22 16.67   +07 13.3    1.287    2.272   162.9     7.5    10.1
2007 09 03    22 12.28   +06 43.7    1.285    2.269   163.2     7.4    10.1
2007 09 08    22 08.08   +06 09.6    1.289    2.267   161.5     8.1    10.2
2007 09 13    22 04.21   +05 32.0    1.299    2.265   158.3     9.5    10.2
2007 09 18    22 00.82   +04 52.3    1.315    2.263   154.2    11.1    10.3
2007 09 23    21 58.02   +04 11.8    1.337    2.261   149.7    13.0    10.4
2007 09 28    21 55.90   +03 31.6    1.364    2.259   144.9    14.8    10.5
2007 10 03    21 54.49   +02 52.7    1.396    2.257   140.1    16.5    10.6
2007 10 08    21 53.84   +02 16.1    1.432    2.255   135.4    18.1    10.7
2007 10 13    21 53.96   +01 42.4    1.473    2.254   130.6    19.6    10.8
2007 10 18    21 54.84   +01 12.4    1.517    2.252   126.0    21.0    10.9
2007 10 23    21 56.47   +00 46.3    1.564    2.251   121.6    22.1    11.0
2007 10 28    21 58.81   +00 24.6    1.614    2.249   117.2    23.1    11.1
2007 11 02    22 01.81   +00 07.2    1.666    2.248   113.0    24.0    11.2
2007 11 07    22 05.43   -00 05.7    1.720    2.246   108.9    24.7    11.3
2007 11 12    22 09.63   -00 14.0    1.776    2.245   104.9    25.2    11.3
2007 11 17    22 14.37   -00 18.0    1.833    2.244   101.1    25.6    11.4
2007 11 22    22 19.59   -00 17.6    1.891    2.243    97.3    25.9    11.5
2007 11 27    22 25.26   -00 13.0    1.950    2.242    93.7    26.1    11.6

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