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(40) Harmonia

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 31001:
    (40) Harmonia
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 Goffin
M  90.44966              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.28866166     Peri.  269.73662     +0.99478539     -0.07016996
a   2.2674792      Node    94.28640     +0.09370264     +0.91535618
e   0.0463485      Incl.    4.25655     -0.04027212     +0.39648360
P   3.41           H    7.0           G   0.15           U   0
From 3339 observations at 81 oppositions, 1856-1996, mean residual 0".52.
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    07 49.14   +22 57.5    1.325    2.290   165.5     6.2     9.9
2009 01 06    07 43.74   +23 22.7    1.315    2.292   171.7     3.5     9.7
2009 01 11    07 38.06   +23 47.2    1.312    2.295   177.3     1.2     9.6
2009 01 16    07 32.32   +24 10.2    1.316    2.297   174.6     2.3     9.7
2009 01 21    07 26.71   +24 31.3    1.327    2.300   168.4     4.9     9.8
2009 01 26    07 21.43   +24 49.9    1.345    2.302   162.2     7.5    10.0
2009 01 31    07 16.67   +25 05.7    1.370    2.305   156.0    10.0    10.1
2009 02 05    07 12.58   +25 18.8    1.400    2.307   150.1    12.3    10.3
2009 02 10    07 09.29   +25 29.1    1.436    2.310   144.3    14.5    10.4
2009 02 15    07 06.84   +25 36.9    1.477    2.312   138.6    16.4    10.5
2009 02 20    07 05.28   +25 42.4    1.522    2.314   133.3    18.1    10.7
2009 02 25    07 04.62   +25 45.7    1.571    2.317   128.1    19.7    10.8
2009 03 02    07 04.86   +25 47.0    1.624    2.319   123.1    21.0    10.9
2009 03 07    07 05.96   +25 46.4    1.679    2.321   118.4    22.1    11.0
2009 03 12    07 07.86   +25 44.1    1.737    2.323   113.8    23.0    11.1
2009 03 17    07 10.52   +25 40.1    1.797    2.326   109.4    23.8    11.2
2009 03 22    07 13.88   +25 34.5    1.858    2.328   105.2    24.4    11.3
2009 03 27    07 17.89   +25 27.2    1.920    2.330   101.2    24.8    11.4
2009 04 01    07 22.49   +25 18.2    1.984    2.332    97.3    25.2    11.5

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