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Minor Planet Center

(69) Hesperia

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 27086:
    (69) Hesperia
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 Goffin
M 214.27244              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.19186537     Peri.  289.92789     -0.42169081     -0.90664368
a   2.9771792      Node   185.07233     +0.87770677     -0.40449267
e   0.1681491      Incl.    8.58270     +0.22761301     -0.11992877
P   5.14           H    7.05          G   0.19           U   1
From 449 observations at 69 oppositions, 1861-1993, mean residual 1".01.
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    01 24.92   +07 39.3    2.158    3.018   142.1    11.8    11.8
2008 09 12    01 23.05   +07 14.1    2.111    3.010   147.6    10.3    11.7
2008 09 17    01 20.72   +06 45.7    2.070    3.001   153.1     8.7    11.6
2008 09 22    01 17.96   +06 14.4    2.035    2.993   158.8     7.0    11.5
2008 09 27    01 14.83   +05 40.8    2.006    2.985   164.6     5.1    11.3
2008 10 02    01 11.42   +05 05.4    1.985    2.976   170.4     3.2    11.2
2008 10 07    01 07.81   +04 29.0    1.970    2.968   175.8     1.4    11.1
2008 10 12    01 04.11   +03 52.3    1.963    2.959   176.2     1.3    11.0
2008 10 17    01 00.43   +03 16.3    1.963    2.951   170.8     3.1    11.2
2008 10 22    00 56.87   +02 41.6    1.970    2.942   165.0     5.0    11.3
2008 10 27    00 53.52   +02 09.1    1.984    2.934   159.1     6.9    11.4
2008 11 01    00 50.48   +01 39.4    2.005    2.925   153.2     8.8    11.5
2008 11 06    00 47.83   +01 13.1    2.032    2.917   147.5    10.5    11.5
2008 11 11    00 45.65   +00 50.7    2.065    2.908   141.8    12.1    11.6
2008 11 16    00 43.97   +00 32.5    2.103    2.900   136.3    13.6    11.7
2008 11 21    00 42.82   +00 18.6    2.146    2.891   130.9    15.0    11.8
2008 11 26    00 42.24   +00 09.1    2.193    2.883   125.7    16.1    11.9

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