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Minor Planet Center

(10) Hygiea

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 35055:
    (10) Hygiea
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 Goffin
M 127.11902              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.17736126     Peri.  313.11831     -0.54930414     +0.83307731
a   3.1373541      Node   283.45292     -0.74589779     -0.52398714
e   0.1177572      Incl.    3.84220     -0.37669808     -0.17725594
P   5.56           H    5.43          G   0.15           U   0
From 2261 observations at 104 oppositions, 1849-1999, 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
 
2008 09 17    05 02.73   +25 38.2    3.234    3.506    97.2    16.5    11.6
2008 09 22    05 04.78   +25 42.5    3.162    3.505   101.7    16.3    11.5
2008 09 27    05 06.36   +25 46.1    3.091    3.505   106.2    15.9    11.5
2008 10 02    05 07.42   +25 48.9    3.021    3.504   110.9    15.5    11.4
2008 10 07    05 07.96   +25 51.0    2.953    3.504   115.6    14.9    11.3
2008 10 12    05 07.95   +25 52.2    2.888    3.503   120.6    14.2    11.3
2008 10 17    05 07.39   +25 52.7    2.827    3.502   125.6    13.4    11.2
2008 10 22    05 06.26   +25 52.1    2.769    3.501   130.9    12.4    11.1
2008 10 27    05 04.58   +25 50.6    2.715    3.501   136.2    11.3    11.0
2008 11 01    05 02.35   +25 47.9    2.666    3.500   141.7    10.1    10.9
2008 11 06    04 59.60   +25 44.0    2.623    3.498   147.3     8.8    10.8
2008 11 11    04 56.40   +25 38.7    2.586    3.497   153.0     7.4    10.7
2008 11 16    04 52.79   +25 32.1    2.556    3.496   158.8     5.9    10.7
2008 11 21    04 48.86   +25 24.0    2.532    3.495   164.7     4.3    10.5
2008 11 26    04 44.68   +25 14.6    2.516    3.494   170.5     2.7    10.4
2008 12 01    04 40.36   +25 03.9    2.508    3.492   175.9     1.2    10.3
2008 12 06    04 36.01   +24 52.2    2.507    3.491   175.8     1.2    10.3
2008 12 11    04 31.73   +24 39.6    2.514    3.489   170.4     2.7    10.4
2008 12 16    04 27.62   +24 26.4    2.529    3.488   164.6     4.3    10.5
2008 12 21    04 23.78   +24 13.0    2.551    3.486   158.6     5.9    10.6
2008 12 26    04 20.29   +23 59.7    2.581    3.484   152.8     7.4    10.7

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