(46) Hestia

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 25186:
   (46) Hestia
Epoch 2002 May 6.0 TT = JDT 2452400.5    (M-c)          Goffin
M 348.93743              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.24560711     Peri.  176.00635     +0.99882973     +0.04835715
a   2.5252755      Node   181.22292     -0.04542681     +0.93182484
e   0.1716401      Incl.    2.33630     -0.01660048     +0.35967214
P   4.01           H    8.36          G   0.06           U   1
From 741 observations at 82 oppositions, 1857-1992, mean residual 0".95.
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 09 23    03 19.60   +16 31.4    1.374    2.142   127.9    21.7    11.9
2002 09 28    03 19.80   +16 22.9    1.337    2.148   132.8    20.0    11.8
2002 10 03    03 19.13   +16 11.1    1.303    2.153   137.9    18.2    11.7
2002 10 08    03 17.62   +15 55.9    1.274    2.159   143.2    16.1    11.5
2002 10 13    03 15.30   +15 37.8    1.249    2.165   148.8    13.8    11.4
2002 10 18    03 12.24   +15 16.9    1.229    2.171   154.5    11.4    11.3
2002 10 23    03 08.56   +14 53.9    1.214    2.177   160.4     8.8    11.1
2002 10 28    03 04.38   +14 29.2    1.205    2.184   166.3     6.2    11.0
2002 11 02    02 59.86   +14 03.6    1.203    2.190   172.2     3.5    10.8
2002 11 07    02 55.17   +13 37.9    1.207    2.197   176.9     1.4    10.7
2002 11 12    02 50.52   +13 13.0    1.217    2.204   174.0     2.7    10.8
2002 11 17    02 46.08   +12 49.9    1.234    2.211   168.2     5.2    11.0
2002 11 22    02 42.03   +12 29.4    1.258    2.219   162.2     7.8    11.2
2002 11 27    02 38.49   +12 12.0    1.287    2.226   156.3    10.2    11.4
2002 12 02    02 35.57   +11 58.4    1.322    2.234   150.6    12.5    11.5
2002 12 07    02 33.35   +11 48.9    1.363    2.242   145.0    14.6    11.7
2002 12 12    02 31.89   +11 43.7    1.408    2.250   139.5    16.5    11.9

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