In the sky
- Right ascension
- 00h 48m 56s
- Declination
- +02° 19′ 22″
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 8.48 AU
- Elongation from the Sun
- 163.21° — near opposition — up most of the night
Visible from both hemispheres.
Shown at its parent's position — a moon sits within a fraction of a degree of its planet.
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Two-body approximation, good to about a degree for the planets — enough to find the constellation and know whether it is up.
Orbital elements
- Semi-major axis
- 0.119 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.488
- Inclination
- 39.8°
- Orbital period
- 882.2 days
- Perihelion
- 0.061 AU
- Aphelion
- 0.176 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 173.7°
- Argument of periapsis
- 37.8°
- Epoch · ecliptic
- 2000-01-01.5
Discovery & classification
Also known as S2019_S_31
Sources
- orbital elements: JPL Solar System Dynamics — planetary satellites