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Minor Planet Center

(93) Minerva

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 53552
    (93) Minerva
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 Goffin
M 290.78703              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21568392     Peri.  275.80953     +0.17206457     +0.98502695
a   2.7537481      Node     4.14492     -0.83464488     +0.15157782
e   0.1417108      Incl.    8.55790     -0.52322243     +0.08213446
P   4.57           H    7.7           G   0.15           U   0
From 720 observations at 65 oppositions, 1867-2003, 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 04 10    16 52.64   -32 05.7    1.740    2.448   124.3    19.8    11.8
2008 04 15    16 53.25   -32 34.8    1.686    2.443   128.8    18.7    11.7
2008 04 20    16 53.05   -33 02.9    1.635    2.438   133.5    17.4    11.6
2008 04 25    16 52.02   -33 29.6    1.589    2.433   138.2    16.0    11.5
2008 04 30    16 50.16   -33 54.5    1.547    2.429   143.1    14.4    11.4
2008 05 05    16 47.49   -34 16.9    1.509    2.424   148.0    12.8    11.3
2008 05 10    16 44.05   -34 36.4    1.477    2.420   152.8    11.0    11.2
2008 05 15    16 39.97   -34 52.3    1.450    2.415   157.5     9.2    11.0
2008 05 20    16 35.34   -35 04.2    1.430    2.411   161.7     7.6    10.9
2008 05 25    16 30.33   -35 11.5    1.415    2.407   165.0     6.3    10.8
2008 05 30    16 25.09   -35 14.2    1.406    2.404   166.5     5.6    10.8
2008 06 04    16 19.83   -35 12.3    1.404    2.400   165.7     6.0    10.8
2008 06 09    16 14.73   -35 06.0    1.407    2.396   162.9     7.1    10.9
2008 06 14    16 10.00   -34 55.9    1.417    2.393   159.0     8.8    10.9
2008 06 19    16 05.78   -34 42.7    1.433    2.390   154.5    10.6    11.0
2008 06 24    16 02.20   -34 27.2    1.454    2.387   149.7    12.4    11.1
2008 06 29    15 59.36   -34 10.1    1.480    2.384   144.9    14.2    11.2
2008 07 04    15 57.33   -33 52.3    1.511    2.382   140.1    15.9    11.3
2008 07 09    15 56.16   -33 34.5    1.546    2.379   135.3    17.5    11.4
2008 07 14    15 55.86   -33 17.3    1.585    2.377   130.7    18.9    11.5
2008 07 19    15 56.41   -33 01.1    1.628    2.375   126.3    20.2    11.6
2008 07 24    15 57.79   -32 46.3    1.673    2.373   121.9    21.3    11.7
2008 07 29    15 59.97   -32 33.0    1.722    2.371   117.7    22.3    11.8

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