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Minor Planet Center

(88) Thisbe

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 31001:
    (88) Thisbe
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 Goffin
M 229.65507              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21415389     Peri.   36.62162     +0.68445133     +0.72344126
a   2.7668486      Node   276.76415     -0.68862669     +0.60082578
e   0.1650520      Incl.    5.21889     -0.23941526     +0.34006046
P   4.60           H    7.04          G   0.14           U   0
From 998 observations at 68 oppositions, 1866-1997, mean residual 0".54.
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 03 01    13 29.25   -16 55.3    2.169    2.939   133.4    14.2    11.9
2008 03 06    13 27.60   -16 56.0    2.112    2.931   138.6    12.9    11.8
2008 03 11    13 25.38   -16 52.7    2.061    2.924   144.0    11.5    11.7
2008 03 16    13 22.63   -16 45.2    2.015    2.916   149.5    10.0    11.5
2008 03 21    13 19.41   -16 33.6    1.975    2.908   155.0     8.3    11.4
2008 03 26    13 15.79   -16 18.0    1.941    2.901   160.4     6.6    11.3
2008 03 31    13 11.85   -15 58.7    1.914    2.893   165.7     4.9    11.2
2008 04 05    13 07.70   -15 36.0    1.894    2.885   170.1     3.4    11.1
2008 04 10    13 03.44   -15 10.4    1.881    2.877   172.2     2.7    11.0
2008 04 15    12 59.21   -14 42.6    1.875    2.869   170.2     3.4    11.0
2008 04 20    12 55.12   -14 13.5    1.876    2.861   165.8     4.9    11.1
2008 04 25    12 51.28   -13 43.7    1.884    2.853   160.6     6.7    11.2
2008 04 30    12 47.78   -13 14.2    1.899    2.845   155.2     8.6    11.3
2008 05 05    12 44.72   -12 45.6    1.920    2.837   149.7    10.3    11.4
2008 05 10    12 42.16   -12 18.7    1.946    2.828   144.3    12.0    11.5
2008 05 15    12 40.15   -11 54.2    1.978    2.820   139.0    13.6    11.6
2008 05 20    12 38.72   -11 32.5    2.015    2.812   133.8    15.1    11.7
2008 05 25    12 37.89   -11 14.0    2.055    2.803   128.8    16.4    11.7
2008 05 30    12 37.66   -10 58.9    2.100    2.795   123.9    17.5    11.8

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