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Minor Planet Center

(128) Nemesis

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 25186:
   (128) Nemesis
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 Goffin
M 246.10629              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21588083     Peri.  302.24632     +0.94228836     -0.31761272
a   2.7520733      Node    76.45890     +0.33196307     +0.84522093
e   0.1260486      Incl.    6.25352     +0.04351060     +0.42979500
P   4.57           H    7.49          G   0.15           U   0
From 353 observations at 64 oppositions, 1872-1994, 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 06 19    21 36.02   -20 53.9    1.880    2.633   128.2    17.7    11.9
2008 06 24    21 36.21   -21 11.9    1.826    2.627   133.0    16.5    11.8
2008 06 29    21 35.73   -21 33.1    1.776    2.620   137.8    15.1    11.7
2008 07 04    21 34.59   -21 57.3    1.730    2.614   142.9    13.6    11.6
2008 07 09    21 32.79   -22 24.0    1.689    2.608   148.0    11.9    11.4
2008 07 14    21 30.37   -22 52.6    1.654    2.602   153.2    10.2    11.3
2008 07 19    21 27.37   -23 22.6    1.624    2.595   158.4     8.3    11.2
2008 07 24    21 23.85   -23 53.1    1.599    2.589   163.4     6.4    11.1
2008 07 29    21 19.91   -24 23.4    1.582    2.583   167.9     4.7    11.0
2008 08 03    21 15.65   -24 52.4    1.570    2.577   171.0     3.5    10.9
2008 08 08    21 11.22   -25 19.5    1.565    2.571   170.8     3.6    10.9
2008 08 13    21 06.75   -25 43.6    1.567    2.565   167.5     4.9    10.9
2008 08 18    21 02.41   -26 04.3    1.575    2.560   162.8     6.7    11.0
2008 08 23    20 58.32   -26 21.2    1.589    2.554   157.7     8.7    11.1
2008 08 28    20 54.62   -26 33.9    1.610    2.548   152.4    10.6    11.2
2008 09 02    20 51.42   -26 42.2    1.636    2.542   147.1    12.4    11.3
2008 09 07    20 48.83   -26 46.3    1.667    2.537   141.9    14.2    11.4
2008 09 12    20 46.90   -26 46.2    1.703    2.531   136.8    15.8    11.5
2008 09 17    20 45.69   -26 42.2    1.743    2.526   131.8    17.3    11.6
2008 09 22    20 45.21   -26 34.6    1.787    2.521   126.9    18.6    11.7
2008 09 27    20 45.46   -26 23.5    1.834    2.516   122.2    19.7    11.8

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