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Minor Planet Center

(19) Fortuna

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 53552
    (19) Fortuna
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 Goffin
M 296.07797              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.25809122     Peri.  181.88346     +0.83710740     -0.54685305
a   2.4431712      Node   211.28129     +0.50225607     +0.77863740
e   0.1579498      Incl.    1.57213     +0.21677185     +0.30769390
P   3.82           H    7.13          G   0.10           U   0
From 2354 observations at 94 oppositions, 1852-2003, mean residual 0".57.
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
 
2009 09 08    04 53.73   +22 07.0    1.789    2.063    90.7    29.2    11.3
2009 09 13    05 00.81   +22 13.5    1.737    2.065    93.9    29.1    11.3
2009 09 18    05 07.39   +22 17.8    1.685    2.068    97.2    28.8    11.2
2009 09 23    05 13.42   +22 20.3    1.633    2.070   100.7    28.4    11.1
2009 09 28    05 18.84   +22 21.1    1.583    2.073   104.4    27.9    11.0
2009 10 03    05 23.60   +22 20.4    1.533    2.076   108.2    27.3    10.9
2009 10 08    05 27.64   +22 18.3    1.485    2.079   112.2    26.4    10.9
2009 10 13    05 30.90   +22 15.0    1.438    2.083   116.4    25.4    10.8
2009 10 18    05 33.31   +22 10.7    1.393    2.087   120.8    24.2    10.7
2009 10 23    05 34.83   +22 05.5    1.350    2.091   125.4    22.8    10.5
2009 10 28    05 35.42   +21 59.6    1.311    2.095   130.3    21.2    10.4
2009 11 02    05 35.06   +21 53.0    1.274    2.099   135.3    19.4    10.3
2009 11 07    05 33.74   +21 45.7    1.242    2.104   140.6    17.4    10.2
2009 11 12    05 31.50   +21 37.9    1.213    2.109   146.2    15.1    10.1
2009 11 17    05 28.37   +21 29.4    1.190    2.114   151.9    12.7     9.9
2009 11 22    05 24.46   +21 20.5    1.172    2.119   157.9    10.1     9.8
2009 11 27    05 19.92   +21 11.0    1.159    2.125   164.0     7.4     9.7
2009 12 02    05 14.92   +21 01.1    1.153    2.131   170.1     4.6     9.5
2009 12 07    05 09.65   +20 51.1    1.153    2.137   176.0     1.8     9.3
2009 12 12    05 04.34   +20 41.1    1.159    2.143   176.4     1.7     9.3
2009 12 17    04 59.18   +20 31.5    1.172    2.149   170.5     4.3     9.5
2009 12 22    04 54.40   +20 22.7    1.192    2.156   164.4     7.1     9.7
2009 12 27    04 50.17   +20 15.2    1.218    2.162   158.3     9.7     9.9

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