(21) Lutetia
Orbital Elements
The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 2601
(21) Lutetia
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5 Williams
M 335.00496 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.25929923 Peri. 249.95730 +0.87219033 +0.48631033
a 2.4355772 Node 80.91261 -0.42645440 +0.80879440
e 0.1630958 Incl. 3.06428 -0.23962610 +0.33068699
P 3.80 H 7.35 G 0.11 U 0
From 814 observations at 58 oppositions, 1866-2000, mean residual 0".67.
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 07 04 41.12 +20 07.8 1.980 2.270 93.1 26.3 11.9 2008 09 12 04 46.02 +20 17.7 1.929 2.279 96.8 26.0 11.8 2008 09 17 04 50.35 +20 26.2 1.878 2.288 100.6 25.6 11.7 2008 09 22 04 54.05 +20 33.3 1.827 2.297 104.7 25.0 11.7 2008 09 27 04 57.07 +20 39.4 1.778 2.306 108.8 24.3 11.6 2008 10 02 04 59.36 +20 44.3 1.730 2.315 113.2 23.4 11.5 2008 10 07 05 00.87 +20 48.3 1.683 2.324 117.8 22.4 11.4 2008 10 12 05 01.57 +20 51.5 1.639 2.333 122.5 21.1 11.4 2008 10 17 05 01.43 +20 53.8 1.597 2.342 127.5 19.7 11.3 2008 10 22 05 00.43 +20 55.4 1.559 2.351 132.7 18.1 11.2 2008 10 27 04 58.57 +20 56.1 1.525 2.360 138.1 16.3 11.1 2008 11 01 04 55.86 +20 55.9 1.495 2.369 143.7 14.3 10.9 2008 11 06 04 52.37 +20 54.9 1.470 2.378 149.6 12.2 10.8 2008 11 11 04 48.18 +20 52.9 1.451 2.387 155.5 9.9 10.7 2008 11 16 04 43.41 +20 50.1 1.437 2.396 161.7 7.5 10.6 2008 11 21 04 38.20 +20 46.3 1.430 2.405 167.9 4.9 10.5 2008 11 26 04 32.70 +20 41.7 1.430 2.414 174.2 2.4 10.3 2008 12 01 04 27.12 +20 36.6 1.438 2.423 178.7 0.5 10.2 2008 12 06 04 21.64 +20 31.3 1.452 2.432 172.9 2.9 10.4 2008 12 11 04 16.44 +20 26.2 1.473 2.441 166.6 5.4 10.6 2008 12 16 04 11.68 +20 21.6 1.501 2.450 160.4 7.7 10.8 2008 12 21 04 07.48 +20 17.9 1.535 2.459 154.4 10.0 10.9 2008 12 26 04 03.95 +20 15.4 1.576 2.468 148.5 12.0 11.1
