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Minor Planet Center

(287) Nephthys

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 77281
   (287) Nephthys
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 Goffin
M 332.58393              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.27305707     Peri.  120.38457     -0.11628010     +0.98754260
a   2.3530642      Node   142.47512     -0.96050883     -0.08464263
e   0.0239877      Incl.   10.02310     -0.25278789     -0.13264701
P   3.61           H    8.30          G   0.22           U   0
From 1372 observations at 64 oppositions, 1889-2004, 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 06 29    21 34.85   -09 18.1    1.483    2.311   134.3    18.3    11.8
2008 07 04    21 33.86   -09 38.4    1.443    2.312   139.4    16.6    11.7
2008 07 09    21 32.18   -10 04.0    1.407    2.313   144.7    14.7    11.6
2008 07 14    21 29.82   -10 34.7    1.376    2.314   150.2    12.6    11.5
2008 07 19    21 26.86   -11 10.2    1.350    2.315   155.8    10.4    11.4
2008 07 24    21 23.36   -11 49.9    1.330    2.316   161.6     8.0    11.3
2008 07 29    21 19.41   -12 33.0    1.315    2.317   167.5     5.5    11.1
2008 08 03    21 15.15   -13 18.5    1.307    2.318   173.3     2.9    11.0
2008 08 08    21 10.72   -14 05.4    1.305    2.319   177.9     0.9    10.8
2008 08 13    21 06.29   -14 52.5    1.310    2.320   173.9     2.7    11.0
2008 08 18    21 02.01   -15 38.6    1.322    2.321   168.0     5.2    11.1
2008 08 23    20 58.03   -16 22.8    1.339    2.322   162.1     7.7    11.3
2008 08 28    20 54.49   -17 04.2    1.363    2.324   156.3    10.1    11.4
2008 09 02    20 51.50   -17 42.2    1.392    2.325   150.6    12.3    11.5
2008 09 07    20 49.16   -18 16.1    1.427    2.326   145.1    14.4    11.6
2008 09 12    20 47.54   -18 45.7    1.467    2.327   139.7    16.2    11.8
2008 09 17    20 46.67   -19 10.8    1.510    2.328   134.5    17.9    11.9

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