(106) Dione
Orbital Elements
The following orbital elements are taken from MPO133258(106) Dione Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 Goffin M 284.43621 (2000.0) P Q n 0.17393164 Peri. 328.99568 +0.85288637 -0.51724314 a 3.1784617 Node 62.31568 +0.49394600 +0.75533330 e 0.1700778 Incl. 4.60039 +0.16912184 +0.40240668 P 5.67 H 7.41 G 0.15 U 0 From 1108 observations at 85 oppositions, 1868-2007, mean residual 0".83.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 08 09 00 19.85 -04 40.3 1.955 2.752 133.4 15.5 11.9 2009 08 14 00 19.24 -04 51.7 1.906 2.746 138.3 14.2 11.8 2009 08 19 00 18.05 -05 06.1 1.861 2.741 143.4 12.7 11.7 2009 08 24 00 16.30 -05 23.1 1.821 2.735 148.6 11.1 11.6 2009 08 29 00 14.03 -05 42.3 1.786 2.730 153.9 9.4 11.5 2009 09 03 00 11.29 -06 03.1 1.758 2.725 159.3 7.5 11.4 2009 09 08 00 08.15 -06 24.9 1.735 2.720 164.6 5.7 11.2 2009 09 13 00 04.67 -06 47.1 1.719 2.715 169.5 3.9 11.1 2009 09 18 00 00.98 -07 08.8 1.710 2.710 173.0 2.6 11.0 2009 09 23 23 57.17 -07 29.4 1.707 2.705 172.5 2.8 11.0 2009 09 28 23 53.37 -07 47.9 1.711 2.701 168.5 4.2 11.1 2009 10 03 23 49.71 -08 03.8 1.722 2.696 163.4 6.1 11.2 2009 10 08 23 46.28 -08 16.5 1.739 2.692 158.0 8.0 11.3 2009 10 13 23 43.20 -08 25.5 1.763 2.688 152.5 9.9 11.4 2009 10 18 23 40.55 -08 30.7 1.792 2.684 147.1 11.6 11.5 2009 10 23 23 38.40 -08 31.7 1.827 2.680 141.7 13.3 11.6 2009 10 28 23 36.81 -08 28.5 1.867 2.677 136.5 14.8 11.7 2009 11 02 23 35.81 -08 21.1 1.912 2.673 131.4 16.2 11.8 2009 11 07 23 35.41 -08 09.6 1.960 2.670 126.4 17.4 11.9
