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Minor Planet Center

(55) Pandora

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 14338
    (55) Pandora
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 Goffin
M 265.96084              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21503246     Peri.    3.93960     +0.96843737     -0.24820977
a   2.7593070      Node    10.51656     +0.22513531     +0.83174252
e   0.1446641      Incl.    7.18392     +0.10697273     +0.49658462
P   4.58           H    7.8           G   0.15           U   0
From 981 observations at 69 oppositions, 1858-2001, mean residual 0".53.
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 07 10    22 25.22   -19 26.7    1.686    2.519   136.1    16.2    11.8
2009 07 15    22 24.19   -19 38.1    1.640    2.513   141.0    14.7    11.7
2009 07 20    22 22.46   -19 51.7    1.598    2.506   146.0    13.1    11.6
2009 07 25    22 20.06   -20 07.1    1.562    2.500   151.2    11.3    11.5
2009 07 30    22 17.03   -20 23.5    1.530    2.494   156.4     9.4    11.3
2009 08 04    22 13.44   -20 40.3    1.505    2.488   161.5     7.4    11.2
2009 08 09    22 09.39   -20 56.6    1.485    2.482   166.3     5.6    11.1
2009 08 14    22 04.97   -21 11.7    1.472    2.476   170.1     4.0    11.0
2009 08 19    22 00.33   -21 24.8    1.465    2.470   171.3     3.6    10.9
2009 08 24    21 55.62   -21 35.1    1.465    2.465   168.9     4.5    11.0
2009 08 29    21 51.00   -21 42.0    1.471    2.459   164.6     6.3    11.1
2009 09 03    21 46.62   -21 45.1    1.483    2.454   159.5     8.3    11.2
2009 09 08    21 42.62   -21 44.2    1.501    2.448   154.3    10.3    11.3
2009 09 13    21 39.12   -21 39.2    1.525    2.443   149.0    12.3    11.4
2009 09 18    21 36.21   -21 30.2    1.555    2.438   143.7    14.1    11.5
2009 09 23    21 33.98   -21 17.2    1.589    2.433   138.5    15.9    11.6
2009 09 28    21 32.48   -21 00.5    1.627    2.429   133.5    17.4    11.7
2009 10 03    21 31.71   -20 40.3    1.670    2.424   128.6    18.8    11.8
2009 10 08    21 31.69   -20 16.9    1.716    2.419   123.9    20.1    11.9

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