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Minor Planet Center

(33) Polyhymnia

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 9657
    (33) Polyhymnia
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 Goffin
M 291.34570              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.20331052     Peri.  338.21153     +0.97353256     +0.22849639
a   2.8643724      Node     8.58426     -0.20457339     +0.88071721
e   0.3382731      Incl.    1.87101     -0.10190228     +0.41488143
P   4.85           H    8.55          G   0.33           U   0
From 635 observations at 73 oppositions, 1854-2001, 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 06 10    20 53.25   -20 32.0    1.364    2.153   129.0    21.5    11.7
2009 06 15    20 55.07   -20 30.0    1.309    2.138   133.4    20.2    11.6
2009 06 20    20 56.15   -20 30.8    1.257    2.123   137.9    18.7    11.4
2009 06 25    20 56.46   -20 34.2    1.208    2.108   142.6    17.0    11.3
2009 06 30    20 56.01   -20 40.4    1.164    2.094   147.5    15.1    11.1
2009 07 05    20 54.80   -20 48.9    1.124    2.080   152.5    13.0    11.0
2009 07 10    20 52.87   -20 59.4    1.089    2.066   157.7    10.8    10.8
2009 07 15    20 50.25   -21 11.6    1.059    2.053   163.0     8.3    10.7
2009 07 20    20 47.05   -21 24.7    1.034    2.040   168.4     5.7    10.5
2009 07 25    20 43.39   -21 38.0    1.015    2.027   173.6     3.2    10.4
2009 07 30    20 39.43   -21 50.8    1.001    2.015   176.7     1.7    10.2
2009 08 04    20 35.37   -22 02.2    0.993    2.004   173.2     3.5    10.3
2009 08 09    20 31.39   -22 11.5    0.990    1.993   167.8     6.2    10.4
2009 08 14    20 27.68   -22 18.4    0.993    1.982   162.3     8.9    10.5
2009 08 19    20 24.43   -22 22.3    1.001    1.972   156.9    11.6    10.6
2009 08 24    20 21.81   -22 23.0    1.014    1.963   151.5    14.2    10.7
2009 08 29    20 19.96   -22 20.4    1.032    1.954   146.3    16.7    10.8
2009 09 03    20 18.96   -22 14.4    1.053    1.946   141.3    18.9    10.9
2009 09 08    20 18.86   -22 05.2    1.079    1.938   136.5    21.0    11.0
2009 09 13    20 19.68   -21 52.9    1.108    1.931   131.9    22.8    11.1
2009 09 18    20 21.43   -21 37.5    1.140    1.924   127.5    24.5    11.2
2009 09 23    20 24.08   -21 19.1    1.175    1.919   123.2    25.9    11.3
2009 09 28    20 27.61   -20 57.7    1.213    1.913   119.2    27.2    11.3
2009 10 03    20 31.93   -20 33.5    1.252    1.909   115.4    28.3    11.4
2009 10 08    20 37.01   -20 06.4    1.294    1.905   111.7    29.2    11.5
2009 10 13    20 42.76   -19 36.5    1.337    1.902   108.2    29.9    11.6
2009 10 18    20 49.13   -19 03.8    1.381    1.899   104.9    30.5    11.7
2009 10 23    20 56.06   -18 28.1    1.427    1.898   101.7    30.9    11.8
2009 10 28    21 03.50   -17 49.7    1.475    1.897    98.5    31.2    11.9

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