(101) Helena

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 22796:
  (101) Helena
Epoch 2001 Apr. 1.0 TT = JDT 2452000.5   (M-c)          Bowell
M 348.26610              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.23745272     Peri.  346.71112     +0.86929559     +0.49174621
a   2.5827634      Node   343.54694     -0.43579100     +0.71462310
e   0.1406500      Incl.   10.19027     -0.23326247     +0.49749321
P   4.15           H    8.33          G   0.35
From 117 observations at 25 oppositions, 1871-1991, mean residual 0".84.
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.

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
 
2001 08 19    01 07.08   +11 27.5    1.503    2.253   126.1    21.3    11.8
2001 08 24    01 06.41   +11 57.5    1.462    2.257   130.9    19.8    11.7
2001 08 29    01 04.96   +12 23.8    1.425    2.261   135.8    18.2    11.6
2001 09 03    01 02.75   +12 46.1    1.391    2.265   140.9    16.3    11.5
2001 09 08    00 59.81   +13 04.1    1.362    2.269   146.1    14.3    11.4
2001 09 13    00 56.19   +13 17.6    1.338    2.274   151.4    12.2    11.3
2001 09 18    00 51.98   +13 26.5    1.320    2.278   156.8    10.0    11.2
2001 09 23    00 47.30   +13 30.8    1.307    2.283   162.1     7.7    11.1
2001 09 28    00 42.30   +13 30.8    1.300    2.288   167.0     5.7    11.0
2001 10 03    00 37.16   +13 26.9    1.300    2.293   170.4     4.2    11.0
2001 10 08    00 32.03   +13 19.7    1.306    2.298   170.7     4.0    11.0
2001 10 13    00 27.10   +13 09.8    1.319    2.303   167.5     5.4    11.1
2001 10 18    00 22.52   +12 58.3    1.338    2.309   162.8     7.3    11.2
2001 10 23    00 18.45   +12 46.0    1.363    2.314   157.5     9.5    11.3
2001 10 28    00 14.99   +12 33.9    1.395    2.320   152.1    11.6    11.4
2001 11 02    00 12.24   +12 22.9    1.432    2.326   146.7    13.5    11.5
2001 11 07    00 10.23   +12 13.6    1.473    2.332   141.5    15.4    11.7
2001 11 12    00 08.99   +12 06.6    1.520    2.338   136.3    17.0    11.8
2001 11 17    00 08.53   +12 02.4    1.571    2.344   131.3    18.5    11.9

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