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Minor Planet Center

(128) Nemesis

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO135420
   (128) Nemesis
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 MPC
M 332.16055              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21610147     Peri.  302.49052     +0.94108512     -0.32118990
a   2.7501998      Node    76.43220     +0.33513156     +0.84395397
e   0.1248413      Incl.    6.24891     +0.04522867     +0.42962630
P   4.56           H    7.49          G   0.15           U   0
From 660 observations at 58 oppositions, 1872-2008, mean residual 0".65.
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 10 28    06 15.97   +23 01.3    1.868    2.526   120.9    19.7    11.8
2009 11 02    06 16.27   +23 12.1    1.819    2.531   125.8    18.5    11.8
2009 11 07    06 15.79   +23 23.7    1.774    2.537   131.0    17.2    11.7
2009 11 12    06 14.52   +23 36.2    1.733    2.542   136.3    15.6    11.6
2009 11 17    06 12.45   +23 49.5    1.697    2.548   141.8    13.9    11.5
2009 11 22    06 09.62   +24 03.2    1.665    2.554   147.5    12.0    11.4
2009 11 27    06 06.10   +24 17.2    1.639    2.559   153.3    10.0    11.2
2009 12 02    06 01.97   +24 31.1    1.619    2.565   159.3     7.8    11.1
2009 12 07    05 57.34   +24 44.5    1.606    2.571   165.4     5.5    11.0
2009 12 12    05 52.34   +24 57.1    1.599    2.577   171.5     3.2    10.9
2009 12 17    05 47.15   +25 08.7    1.599    2.583   177.3     1.0    10.7
2009 12 22    05 41.92   +25 19.1    1.607    2.589   175.4     1.8    10.8
2009 12 27    05 36.84   +25 28.2    1.622    2.595   169.3     4.0    11.0

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