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Minor Planet Center

(50) Virginia

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 77281
    (50) Virginia
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 Goffin
M 279.46251              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.22806682     Peri.  199.95892     +0.97174068     -0.23598839
a   2.6531470      Node   173.68353     +0.22272651     +0.90901944
e   0.2842694      Incl.    2.83144     +0.07818544     +0.34350128
P   4.32           H    9.24          G   0.15           U   0
From 1165 observations at 62 oppositions, 1857-2004, mean residual 0".55.
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 08 18    00 42.93   +05 00.3    1.096    1.937   133.5    22.3    11.9
2008 08 23    00 44.25   +04 57.3    1.057    1.931   138.0    20.5    11.8
2008 08 28    00 44.79   +04 48.5    1.021    1.925   142.8    18.5    11.7
2008 09 02    00 44.56   +04 34.1    0.990    1.920   147.8    16.3    11.5
2008 09 07    00 43.59   +04 14.2    0.962    1.915   152.9    13.8    11.4
2008 09 12    00 41.93   +03 49.4    0.940    1.911   158.3    11.2    11.2
2008 09 17    00 39.68   +03 20.3    0.922    1.908   163.9     8.4    11.0
2008 09 22    00 36.94   +02 48.0    0.909    1.905   169.6     5.5    10.9
2008 09 27    00 33.86   +02 13.7    0.902    1.903   175.3     2.5    10.7
2008 10 02    00 30.62   +01 38.7    0.900    1.901   177.9     1.1    10.6
2008 10 07    00 27.41   +01 04.6    0.904    1.900   172.5     3.9    10.8
2008 10 12    00 24.42   +00 33.0    0.914    1.899   166.8     6.9    11.0
2008 10 17    00 21.82   +00 04.9    0.929    1.899   161.1     9.8    11.1
2008 10 22    00 19.74   -00 18.4    0.949    1.900   155.5    12.6    11.3
2008 10 27    00 18.31   -00 36.3    0.974    1.901   150.1    15.1    11.4
2008 11 01    00 17.60   -00 48.1    1.004    1.903   144.8    17.5    11.6
2008 11 06    00 17.67   -00 53.6    1.037    1.905   139.8    19.6    11.7

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