(230) Athamantis

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 31001:
  (230) Athamantis
Epoch 2002 May 6.0 TT = JDT 2452400.5                   Goffin
M 162.13985              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.26812429     Peri.  139.33137     +0.93603566     -0.32200059
a   2.3818365      Node   239.99124     +0.26513186     +0.91055343
e   0.0619978      Incl.    9.43547     +0.23139218     +0.25924520
P   3.68           H    7.35          G   0.27           U   0
From 797 observations at 64 oppositions, 1882-1996, mean residual 0".53.
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 12 22    11 22.36   -07 38.5    2.175    2.474    95.7    23.3    11.9
2001 12 27    11 25.39   -08 19.3    2.113    2.477    99.7    23.0    11.9
2002 01 06    11 29.83   -09 32.3    1.993    2.482   108.2    22.1    11.7
2002 01 11    11 31.16   -10 03.8    1.934    2.484   112.6    21.4    11.7
2002 01 16    11 31.86   -10 31.3    1.878    2.486   117.2    20.6    11.6
2002 01 21    11 31.89   -10 54.3    1.825    2.489   121.9    19.6    11.5
2002 01 26    11 31.25   -11 12.5    1.774    2.491   126.7    18.5    11.4
2002 01 31    11 29.94   -11 25.3    1.727    2.493   131.7    17.1    11.3
2002 02 05    11 27.95   -11 32.4    1.683    2.495   136.8    15.7    11.2
2002 02 10    11 25.32   -11 33.3    1.645    2.497   142.0    14.1    11.1
2002 02 15    11 22.10   -11 27.7    1.611    2.499   147.2    12.4    11.0
2002 02 20    11 18.38   -11 15.7    1.583    2.501   152.4    10.6    10.9
2002 02 25    11 14.25   -10 57.3    1.561    2.503   157.2     8.8    10.8
2002 03 02    11 09.84   -10 32.8    1.546    2.505   161.5     7.2    10.7
2002 03 07    11 05.29   -10 02.9    1.537    2.507   164.5     6.1    10.7
2002 03 12    11 00.72   -09 28.3    1.535    2.509   165.4     5.7    10.7
2002 03 17    10 56.31   -08 50.0    1.539    2.510   163.9     6.3    10.7
2002 03 22    10 52.18   -08 09.2    1.551    2.512   160.5     7.6    10.8
2002 03 27    10 48.47   -07 27.1    1.569    2.513   156.1     9.3    10.9
2002 04 01    10 45.27   -06 44.9    1.593    2.515   151.2    11.0    11.0
2002 04 06    10 42.66   -06 03.6    1.623    2.516   146.1    12.8    11.0
2002 04 11    10 40.68   -05 24.2    1.658    2.518   141.0    14.5    11.1
2002 04 16    10 39.39   -04 47.5    1.699    2.519   136.0    16.1    11.2
2002 04 21    10 38.78   -04 14.1    1.743    2.520   131.1    17.5    11.3
2002 04 26    10 38.86   -03 44.6    1.792    2.521   126.3    18.8    11.4
2002 05 01    10 39.60   -03 19.1    1.843    2.522   121.6    19.9    11.5
2002 05 06    10 40.96   -02 57.8    1.898    2.523   117.1    20.8    11.6
2002 05 11    10 42.93   -02 40.8    1.955    2.524   112.8    21.7    11.7
2002 05 16    10 45.46   -02 28.1    2.014    2.525   108.5    22.3    11.8

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