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Minor Planet Center

(101) Helena

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 50329
   (101) Helena
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 Goffin
M 291.92341              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.23753464     Peri.  347.78240     +0.87765857     +0.47662844
a   2.5821695      Node   343.46518     -0.42348066     +0.72191650
e   0.1421026      Incl.   10.20163     -0.22445392     +0.50165914
P   4.15           H    8.33          G   0.35           U   0
From 589 observations at 55 oppositions, 1868-2003, mean residual 0".56.
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 20    22 14.16   -20 51.3    1.554    2.245   120.3    23.0    11.9
2009 06 25    22 15.77   -20 41.0    1.503    2.242   124.6    21.9    11.8
2009 06 30    22 16.61   -20 33.2    1.455    2.239   129.0    20.7    11.7
2009 07 05    22 16.66   -20 27.7    1.410    2.236   133.6    19.2    11.6
2009 07 10    22 15.90   -20 24.4    1.368    2.233   138.4    17.6    11.5
2009 07 15    22 14.32   -20 23.0    1.330    2.231   143.4    15.8    11.4
2009 07 20    22 11.93   -20 23.1    1.297    2.228   148.6    13.8    11.2
2009 07 25    22 08.77   -20 24.1    1.269    2.226   153.9    11.6    11.1
2009 07 30    22 04.92   -20 25.3    1.246    2.224   159.2     9.3    11.0
2009 08 04    22 00.48   -20 26.0    1.228    2.222   164.5     7.0    10.9
2009 08 09    21 55.61   -20 25.4    1.216    2.221   169.5     4.8    10.8
2009 08 14    21 50.44   -20 23.0    1.211    2.219   172.9     3.2    10.7
2009 08 19    21 45.15   -20 18.1    1.211    2.218   172.3     3.5    10.7
2009 08 24    21 39.95   -20 10.2    1.218    2.217   168.2     5.3    10.8
2009 08 29    21 35.02   -19 59.1    1.231    2.217   163.1     7.6    10.9
2009 09 03    21 30.53   -19 44.7    1.250    2.216   157.7    10.0    11.0
2009 09 08    21 26.63   -19 27.0    1.274    2.216   152.2    12.2    11.1
2009 09 13    21 23.41   -19 06.2    1.304    2.216   146.9    14.4    11.3
2009 09 18    21 20.95   -18 42.6    1.339    2.216   141.6    16.4    11.4
2009 09 23    21 19.31   -18 16.4    1.378    2.216   136.5    18.1    11.5
2009 09 28    21 18.50   -17 47.7    1.421    2.217   131.6    19.7    11.6
2009 10 03    21 18.52   -17 16.9    1.468    2.218   126.9    21.2    11.7
2009 10 08    21 19.34   -16 44.2    1.518    2.219   122.3    22.4    11.8

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