(471) Papagena

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 31001:
  (471) Papagena
Epoch 2002 May 6.0 TT = JDT 2452400.5                   Goffin
M  80.80030              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.20095303     Peri.  314.81517     +0.75385882     -0.60458462
a   2.8867312      Node    84.11952     +0.65181758     +0.63891851
e   0.2333741      Incl.   14.98728     +0.08264817     +0.47566856
P   4.90           H    6.73          G   0.37           U   0
From 899 observations at 60 oppositions, 1901-1997, mean residual 0".52.
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 07    09 11.17   +26 44.2    1.913    2.576   122.2    18.9    10.9
2001 12 12    09 11.64   +27 23.3    1.872    2.588   127.1    17.7    10.8
2001 12 17    09 11.33   +28 05.9    1.834    2.600   132.2    16.3    10.8
2001 12 22    09 10.23   +28 51.4    1.801    2.611   137.4    14.8    10.7
2001 12 27    09 08.36   +29 39.0    1.773    2.623   142.7    13.1    10.6
2002 01 01    09 05.73   +30 27.9    1.750    2.635   147.9    11.4    10.6
2002 01 06    09 02.41   +31 17.0    1.734    2.647   152.9     9.7    10.5
2002 01 11    08 58.46   +32 05.1    1.723    2.659   157.7     8.1    10.5
2002 01 16    08 54.01   +32 51.1    1.720    2.671   161.6     6.7    10.4
2002 01 21    08 49.18   +33 33.7    1.724    2.684   164.1     5.8    10.4
2002 01 26    08 44.15   +34 12.0    1.734    2.696   164.4     5.6    10.4
2002 01 31    08 39.07   +34 45.1    1.752    2.708   162.4     6.3    10.5
2002 02 05    08 34.13   +35 12.5    1.777    2.720   158.9     7.5    10.6
2002 02 10    08 29.47   +35 34.0    1.808    2.732   154.5     9.0    10.6
2002 02 15    08 25.24   +35 49.5    1.846    2.744   149.6    10.5    10.7
2002 02 20    08 21.58   +35 59.2    1.890    2.756   144.6    12.0    10.9
2002 02 25    08 18.57   +36 03.6    1.940    2.769   139.6    13.4    11.0
2002 03 02    08 16.27   +36 03.2    1.994    2.781   134.6    14.7    11.1
2002 03 07    08 14.71   +35 58.4    2.053    2.793   129.7    15.9    11.2
2002 03 12    08 13.89   +35 49.8    2.115    2.805   124.9    16.9    11.3
2002 03 17    08 13.82   +35 37.9    2.181    2.817   120.2    17.8    11.4
2002 03 22    08 14.47   +35 23.1    2.250    2.829   115.7    18.5    11.5
2002 03 27    08 15.81   +35 05.9    2.322    2.841   111.3    19.1    11.6
2002 04 01    08 17.77   +34 46.4    2.395    2.853   107.0    19.6    11.6
2002 04 06    08 20.33   +34 25.1    2.470    2.865   102.9    19.9    11.7
2002 04 11    08 23.43   +34 02.0    2.546    2.877    98.9    20.1    11.8
2002 04 16    08 27.02   +33 37.4    2.623    2.888    94.9    20.2    11.9

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