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Minor Planet Center

(306) Unitas

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 27886:
   (306) Unitas
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 Goffin
M 298.60784              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.27217104     Peri.  167.53649     +0.63802963     +0.76606758
a   2.3581682      Node   142.02921     -0.71688842     +0.62786483
e   0.1506229      Incl.    7.26804     -0.28105013     +0.13757258
P   3.62           H    8.96          G   0.15           U   0
From 485 observations at 60 oppositions, 1891-1996, mean residual 1".04.
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 07 29    23 17.12   -06 07.7    1.143    2.018   138.4    19.5    11.8
2008 08 03    23 16.68   -06 40.3    1.113    2.020   143.4    17.4    11.6
2008 08 08    23 15.46   -07 18.8    1.087    2.024   148.7    15.1    11.5
2008 08 13    23 13.53   -08 02.3    1.066    2.027   154.2    12.6    11.4
2008 08 18    23 10.95   -08 50.0    1.050    2.031   159.8     9.9    11.2
2008 08 23    23 07.81   -09 40.4    1.040    2.035   165.4     7.2    11.1
2008 08 28    23 04.25   -10 32.4    1.035    2.039   170.8     4.5    11.0
2008 09 02    23 00.42   -11 24.1    1.036    2.043   174.9     2.5    10.9
2008 09 07    22 56.51   -12 14.0    1.043    2.048   173.6     3.1    10.9
2008 09 12    22 52.70   -13 00.4    1.056    2.052   168.7     5.5    11.1
2008 09 17    22 49.16   -13 42.1    1.075    2.057   163.1     8.2    11.3
2008 09 22    22 46.03   -14 18.1    1.099    2.063   157.5    10.7    11.4
2008 09 27    22 43.45   -14 47.8    1.129    2.068   152.0    13.2    11.6
2008 10 02    22 41.52   -15 10.7    1.164    2.074   146.6    15.4    11.7
2008 10 07    22 40.32   -15 26.6    1.203    2.079   141.4    17.5    11.9

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