(3200) Phaethon (2003)

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Updated on February 20, 2004

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Orbital Elements The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, are from 116 observations 1983 to 1996, perturbations by 9 Plantes, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account. The mean residual is +/- 0.91 arc seconds. T = 2003 Sep. 25.94893 TT Epoch = 2003 Oct. 8.0 TT Peri. = 321.96648 e = 0.8899529 Node = 265.44023 (2000.0) a = 1.2713718 AU Incl. = 22.16447 n = 0.687535610 q = 0.1399108 AU P = 1.434 years

Finding Charts

Magnitudes Graph H = 14.3 G = 0.15

The orbital elements are calculated by Kenji Muraoka. The charts are made with StellaNavigator Ver.2.0 for Windows (AstroArts / ASCII). The magnitudes graphs are made with Comet for Windows.