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Minor Planet Center

(140) Siwa

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPO133258
   (140) Siwa
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 Goffin
M 308.85836              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21832930     Peri.  197.32137     +0.56763324     +0.82156797
a   2.7314591      Node   107.29459     -0.74860809     +0.54190899
e   0.2168825      Incl.    3.18753     -0.34260537     +0.17708957
P   4.51           H    8.34          G   0.15           U   0
From 1471 observations at 67 oppositions, 1874-2008, mean residual 0".74.
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 10    20 58.62   -17 23.0    1.382    2.152   127.0    22.1    11.8
2009 06 15    21 00.15   -17 26.7    1.337    2.149   131.5    20.8    11.7
2009 06 20    21 00.92   -17 34.1    1.295    2.146   136.1    19.2    11.5
2009 06 25    21 00.92   -17 45.4    1.257    2.144   140.9    17.4    11.4
2009 06 30    21 00.15   -18 00.3    1.223    2.143   145.9    15.4    11.3
2009 07 05    20 58.64   -18 18.6    1.194    2.141   151.1    13.3    11.2
2009 07 10    20 56.45   -18 39.8    1.169    2.140   156.5    10.9    11.0
2009 07 15    20 53.63   -19 03.5    1.150    2.140   161.9     8.5    10.9
2009 07 20    20 50.29   -19 28.9    1.136    2.139   167.5     5.9    10.7
2009 07 25    20 46.57   -19 55.2    1.127    2.139   173.1     3.3    10.6
2009 07 30    20 42.63   -20 21.3    1.125    2.140   177.8     1.1    10.4
2009 08 04    20 38.65   -20 46.5    1.128    2.140   174.6     2.6    10.5
2009 08 09    20 34.79   -21 09.8    1.137    2.141   169.0     5.2    10.7
2009 08 14    20 31.22   -21 30.8    1.152    2.143   163.4     7.8    10.9
2009 08 19    20 28.10   -21 48.8    1.173    2.145   157.9    10.2    11.0
2009 08 24    20 25.55   -22 03.5    1.199    2.147   152.4    12.6    11.1
2009 08 29    20 23.70   -22 14.7    1.230    2.149   147.2    14.8    11.3
2009 09 03    20 22.60   -22 22.3    1.265    2.152   142.1    16.7    11.4
2009 09 08    20 22.29   -22 26.3    1.305    2.155   137.1    18.5    11.5
2009 09 13    20 22.77   -22 26.9    1.348    2.159   132.4    20.1    11.7
2009 09 18    20 24.05   -22 24.1    1.395    2.162   127.8    21.5    11.8

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