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Minor Planet Center

(82) Alkmene

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 53552
    (82) Alkmene
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 Goffin
M 355.98238              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21497926     Peri.  110.36094     -0.71872700     -0.69496365
a   2.7597623      Node    25.62940     +0.61806889     -0.65268186
e   0.2242811      Incl.    2.83292     +0.31846874     -0.30171496
P   4.58           H    8.40          G   0.28           U   0
From 1251 observations at 84 oppositions, 1864-2003, mean residual 0".56.
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 01 31    12 18.84   +01 08.2    1.449    2.183   126.4    21.3    11.8
2008 02 05    12 19.34   +01 04.8    1.408    2.188   131.4    19.8    11.7
2008 02 10    12 19.04   +01 05.9    1.371    2.194   136.5    18.0    11.6
2008 02 15    12 17.97   +01 11.2    1.338    2.200   141.8    16.1    11.5
2008 02 20    12 16.15   +01 20.6    1.309    2.207   147.3    14.0    11.4
2008 02 25    12 13.63   +01 33.5    1.286    2.213   153.0    11.7    11.3
2008 03 01    12 10.49   +01 49.5    1.267    2.220   158.8     9.3    11.2
2008 03 06    12 06.83   +02 07.8    1.255    2.228   164.7     6.7    11.1
2008 03 11    12 02.79   +02 27.5    1.249    2.235   170.7     4.1    10.9
2008 03 16    11 58.53   +02 47.7    1.249    2.243   176.2     1.7    10.8
2008 03 21    11 54.22   +03 07.2    1.256    2.251   176.1     1.7    10.8
2008 03 26    11 50.02   +03 25.4    1.269    2.259   170.5     4.2    11.0
2008 03 31    11 46.08   +03 41.3    1.288    2.267   164.7     6.7    11.2
2008 04 05    11 42.54   +03 54.2    1.314    2.276   158.9     9.1    11.3
2008 04 10    11 39.51   +04 03.6    1.345    2.285   153.3    11.4    11.4
2008 04 15    11 37.09   +04 09.0    1.382    2.294   147.8    13.5    11.6
2008 04 20    11 35.32   +04 10.4    1.424    2.303   142.5    15.4    11.7
2008 04 25    11 34.24   +04 07.6    1.470    2.313   137.4    17.1    11.8
2008 04 30    11 33.84   +04 00.7    1.520    2.323   132.5    18.7    11.9

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