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(52) Europa

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO135420
    (52) Europa
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 MPC
M 269.06126              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.18101808     Peri.  344.06149     -0.38958953     -0.91537383
a   3.0949579      Node   128.75410     +0.85857639     -0.40087014
e   0.1058531      Incl.    7.48165     +0.33326654     -0.03733476
P   5.44           H    6.31          G   0.18           U   0
From 1635 observations at 69 oppositions, 1860-2007, mean residual 0".58.
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 28    05 57.62   +16 15.1    2.569    2.844    95.4    20.5    11.6
2009 10 03    06 01.19   +16 08.5    2.500    2.841    99.4    20.3    11.5
2009 10 08    06 04.29   +16 01.6    2.432    2.837   103.6    20.0    11.5
2009 10 13    06 06.86   +15 54.5    2.364    2.834   107.8    19.6    11.4
2009 10 18    06 08.89   +15 47.5    2.299    2.830   112.2    19.0    11.3
2009 10 23    06 10.32   +15 40.7    2.235    2.827   116.8    18.3    11.2
2009 10 28    06 11.13   +15 34.4    2.174    2.824   121.5    17.5    11.1
2009 11 02    06 11.32   +15 28.8    2.116    2.821   126.4    16.4    11.0
2009 11 07    06 10.85   +15 24.0    2.062    2.818   131.4    15.3    10.9
2009 11 12    06 09.73   +15 20.3    2.012    2.815   136.6    14.0    10.8
2009 11 17    06 07.96   +15 17.8    1.966    2.812   141.9    12.5    10.7
2009 11 22    06 05.57   +15 16.7    1.926    2.809   147.4    10.9    10.6
2009 11 27    06 02.61   +15 17.1    1.891    2.806   152.9     9.2    10.5
2009 12 02    05 59.15   +15 19.0    1.863    2.804   158.5     7.4    10.4
2009 12 07    05 55.27   +15 22.6    1.841    2.801   163.9     5.6    10.3
2009 12 12    05 51.08   +15 27.8    1.826    2.798   168.8     3.9    10.2
2009 12 17    05 46.70   +15 34.6    1.818    2.796   172.0     2.8    10.1
2009 12 22    05 42.25   +15 43.0    1.818    2.794   171.2     3.1    10.1
2009 12 27    05 37.89   +15 52.9    1.824    2.792   167.1     4.5    10.2

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