(43) Ariadne

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 25032:

   (43) Ariadne
Epoch 2002 May 6.0 TT = JDT 2452400.5    (M-c)          Goffin
M  70.00309              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.30146621     Peri.   15.70759     +0.18574451     +0.98074621
a   2.2028096      Node   265.02578     -0.90790875     +0.14783459
e   0.1686933      Incl.    3.47000     -0.37576680     +0.12760016
P   3.27           H    7.93          G   0.11           U   0
From 882 observations at 78 oppositions, 1857-1994, mean residual 1".01.

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
 
2002 10 23    04 45.76   +24 50.3    1.619    2.436   136.1    16.4    11.8
2002 10 28    04 42.92   +24 43.0    1.583    2.442   141.8    14.6    11.7
2002 11 02    04 39.27   +24 33.3    1.553    2.449   147.6    12.5    11.6
2002 11 07    04 34.89   +24 21.2    1.528    2.455   153.6    10.3    11.5
2002 11 12    04 29.89   +24 06.5    1.509    2.462   159.8     8.0    11.4
2002 11 17    04 24.42   +23 49.4    1.497    2.468   166.0     5.6    11.2
2002 11 22    04 18.64   +23 30.2    1.492    2.474   172.3     3.1    11.1
2002 11 27    04 12.74   +23 09.1    1.494    2.480   177.8     0.9    10.9
2002 12 02    04 06.89   +22 46.8    1.503    2.486   174.2     2.3    11.1
2002 12 07    04 01.28   +22 23.8    1.519    2.491   168.0     4.7    11.2
2002 12 12    03 56.10   +22 01.0    1.543    2.497   161.7     7.1    11.4
2002 12 17    03 51.47   +21 39.1    1.573    2.502   155.5     9.4    11.6
2002 12 22    03 47.50   +21 18.6    1.609    2.507   149.4    11.5    11.7

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