(72) Feronia

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 24219:
   (72) Feronia
Epoch 2002 May 6.0 TT = JDT 2452400.5    (M-c)          Bowell
M  16.26788              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.28893741     Peri.  102.15210     +0.64549940     +0.76245828
a   2.2660363      Node   208.20578     -0.73229294     +0.60126460
e   0.1211833      Incl.    5.41298     -0.21697366     +0.23903611
P   3.41           H    8.94          G   0.15
From 105 observations at 33 oppositions, 1884-1994, mean residual 0".89.
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    02 11.25   +14 41.5    1.245    2.141   144.2    15.9    11.9
2002 09 28    02 08.56   +14 12.8    1.221    2.147   149.8    13.6    11.8
2002 10 03    02 05.19   +13 39.5    1.202    2.154   155.7    11.0    11.7
2002 10 08    02 01.23   +13 02.0    1.189    2.161   161.8     8.3    11.6
2002 10 13    01 56.83   +12 21.4    1.182    2.168   167.9     5.5    11.4
2002 10 18    01 52.18   +11 38.7    1.181    2.174   174.2     2.6    11.3
2002 10 23    01 47.46   +10 55.2    1.186    2.181   179.4     0.3    11.1
2002 10 28    01 42.83   +10 12.2    1.198    2.188   173.2     3.1    11.3
2002 11 02    01 38.47   +09 30.9    1.217    2.195   166.9     5.9    11.5
2002 11 07    01 34.54   +08 52.6    1.242    2.202   160.8     8.5    11.7
2002 11 12    01 31.18   +08 18.3    1.273    2.209   154.7    11.0    11.9

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