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IAU Minor Planet Center

Minor Planet Center

(69230) Hermes

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 87321
 (69230) Hermes
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 MPC
M 289.89051              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.46286587     Peri.   92.39328     -0.59708026     -0.79994489
a   1.6551319      Node    34.49453     +0.68757281     -0.54878601
e   0.6242477      Incl.    6.06750     +0.41320550     -0.24273870
P   2.13           H   17.5           G   0.15           U   0
From 900 observations at 4 oppositions, 1937-2005, 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 (and other) objects may be generated using the Minor Planet & Comet Ephemeris Service.

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2009 10 26    20 57.09   -23 37.9    1.854    2.214    97.4    26.4    21.8

2010 05 24    06 21.11   +26 13.4    1.208    0.645    32.3    56.9    19.0
2010 05 29    06 55.81   +25 34.3    1.158    0.672    35.3    60.6    19.1
2010 06 03    07 30.56   +24 20.7    1.115    0.707    38.4    63.0    19.2
2010 06 08    08 04.89   +22 34.3    1.082    0.749    41.7    64.3    19.3
2010 06 13    08 38.39   +20 18.7    1.060    0.795    45.0    64.6    19.4
2010 06 18    09 10.66   +17 39.3    1.048    0.845    48.3    63.9    19.5
2010 06 23    09 41.43   +14 42.8    1.048    0.896    51.4    62.5    19.6
2010 06 28    10 10.50   +11 36.4    1.059    0.949    54.4    60.5    19.7
2010 07 03    10 37.82   +08 26.9    1.080    1.002    57.0    58.3    19.8
2010 07 08    11 03.38   +05 20.0    1.111    1.056    59.3    55.9    19.9
2010 07 13    11 27.27   +02 20.2    1.150    1.109    61.2    53.5    20.0
2010 07 18    11 49.59   -00 29.8    1.197    1.161    62.7    51.0    20.1
2010 07 23    12 10.48   -03 08.2    1.250    1.213    63.7    48.7    20.2
2010 07 28    12 30.09   -05 34.5    1.309    1.264    64.4    46.4    20.4
2010 08 02    12 48.54   -07 48.6    1.373    1.314    64.8    44.3    20.5
2010 08 07    13 06.00   -09 51.2    1.441    1.363    64.7    42.3    20.6
2010 08 12    13 22.58   -11 42.9    1.513    1.411    64.4    40.4    20.7
2010 08 17    13 38.39   -13 24.6    1.587    1.458    63.8    38.6    20.9
2010 08 22    13 53.53   -14 57.2    1.663    1.504    63.0    36.8    21.0

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