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(19) Fortuna

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 53552
    (19) Fortuna
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 Goffin
M 192.77456              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.25831838     Peri.  181.90688     +0.83604050     -0.54848153
a   2.4417386      Node   211.36946     +0.50375554     +0.77766695
e   0.1590502      Incl.    1.57340     +0.21740892     +0.30724929
P   3.82           H    7.13          G   0.10           U   0
From 2354 observations at 94 oppositions, 1852-2003, 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 object (and others) can be generated using the MPES.

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
 
2008 04 30    18 36.60   -21 36.2    2.006    2.673   121.4    18.8    11.8
2008 05 05    18 36.93   -21 31.5    1.944    2.666   126.2    17.8    11.7
2008 05 10    18 36.56   -21 27.4    1.885    2.660   131.1    16.6    11.6
2008 05 15    18 35.47   -21 23.9    1.830    2.653   136.1    15.3    11.5
2008 05 20    18 33.68   -21 21.0    1.779    2.646   141.4    13.8    11.3
2008 05 25    18 31.18   -21 18.7    1.733    2.639   146.7    12.2    11.2
2008 05 30    18 28.02   -21 16.8    1.693    2.632   152.3    10.3    11.1
2008 06 04    18 24.25   -21 15.4    1.657    2.625   157.9     8.4    10.9
2008 06 09    18 19.94   -21 14.2    1.628    2.618   163.6     6.3    10.8
2008 06 14    18 15.22   -21 13.2    1.606    2.611   169.4     4.1    10.6
2008 06 19    18 10.19   -21 12.2    1.590    2.603   175.1     1.9    10.5
2008 06 24    18 05.01   -21 11.2    1.580    2.596   177.3     1.1    10.4
2008 06 29    17 59.81   -21 10.2    1.578    2.588   172.1     3.1    10.5
2008 07 04    17 54.75   -21 09.2    1.582    2.581   166.3     5.4    10.7
2008 07 09    17 49.99   -21 08.3    1.592    2.573   160.5     7.6    10.8
2008 07 14    17 45.65   -21 07.5    1.609    2.565   154.7     9.7    10.9
2008 07 19    17 41.84   -21 07.1    1.631    2.557   149.1    11.8    11.0
2008 07 24    17 38.66   -21 07.1    1.659    2.549   143.6    13.7    11.1
2008 07 29    17 36.16   -21 07.6    1.692    2.541   138.3    15.4    11.2
2008 08 03    17 34.39   -21 08.8    1.729    2.533   133.1    17.0    11.3
2008 08 08    17 33.39   -21 10.6    1.770    2.525   128.1    18.4    11.4
2008 08 13    17 33.15   -21 13.1    1.815    2.517   123.2    19.7    11.5
2008 08 18    17 33.67   -21 16.2    1.862    2.508   118.5    20.8    11.6
2008 08 23    17 34.91   -21 19.8    1.911    2.500   114.0    21.7    11.6
2008 08 28    17 36.86   -21 23.8    1.963    2.491   109.7    22.4    11.7
2008 09 02    17 39.49   -21 28.1    2.016    2.483   105.4    23.1    11.8
2008 09 07    17 42.77   -21 32.4    2.070    2.474   101.4    23.5    11.9

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