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(30) Urania

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 62176
    (30) Urania
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 Goffin
M  79.89855              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.27084561     Peri.   87.01829     +0.82099636     -0.57019855
a   2.3658553      Node   307.74386     +0.50819798     +0.75295809
e   0.1267994      Incl.    2.09872     +0.26019186     +0.32852355
P   3.64           H    7.57          G   0.15           U   0
From 1395 observations at 82 oppositions, 1854-2003, mean residual 0".55.
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 01 01    10 37.78   +08 06.5    1.719    2.396   122.6    20.2    11.7
2009 01 06    10 37.50   +08 02.8    1.672    2.403   127.7    18.9    11.6
2009 01 11    10 36.47   +08 03.3    1.629    2.410   133.1    17.3    11.5
2009 01 16    10 34.69   +08 08.1    1.590    2.417   138.6    15.6    11.3
2009 01 21    10 32.18   +08 17.2    1.555    2.424   144.3    13.7    11.2
2009 01 26    10 28.97   +08 30.2    1.526    2.430   150.2    11.6    11.1
2009 01 31    10 25.14   +08 46.7    1.503    2.437   156.3     9.4    11.0
2009 02 05    10 20.80   +09 06.2    1.486    2.444   162.5     7.0    10.9
2009 02 10    10 16.06   +09 27.8    1.475    2.450   168.7     4.5    10.8
2009 02 15    10 11.07   +09 50.9    1.472    2.457   174.9     2.0    10.6
2009 02 20    10 05.98   +10 14.6    1.475    2.463   178.0     0.8    10.5
2009 02 25    10 00.97   +10 38.0    1.486    2.470   172.1     3.2    10.7
2009 03 02    09 56.18   +11 00.3    1.503    2.476   165.9     5.6    10.9
2009 03 07    09 51.77   +11 20.8    1.528    2.482   159.7     8.0    11.0
2009 03 12    09 47.87   +11 38.8    1.558    2.489   153.8    10.2    11.2
2009 03 17    09 44.56   +11 54.1    1.595    2.495   147.9    12.2    11.3
2009 03 22    09 41.90   +12 06.3    1.637    2.501   142.3    14.1    11.4
2009 03 27    09 39.95   +12 15.3    1.684    2.507   136.8    15.8    11.6
2009 04 01    09 38.73   +12 20.8    1.736    2.513   131.6    17.3    11.7
2009 04 06    09 38.23   +12 23.0    1.791    2.518   126.5    18.6    11.8
2009 04 11    09 38.43   +12 22.0    1.849    2.524   121.7    19.7    11.9

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