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Old May 7th 07, 08:24 AM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
Ben
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Default MOON / VESTA, May 8, 07

Moon, May 8
0h UTC

coords: 19 31 s 25 55
cent long trmntr: e 20.31d
sin long: 0.347
ecc ell: 0.785
dist: 241 523 mi / 388 694 km
dia: 30.7'
illum: 72.7%

Features:
N- Tempel, Agrippa, Ariadaeus + rille, J Caesar,
Boskovitch + Imbrium Scars, Meneleaus, Auwers,
Bessel, Alexander, Eudoxus, Aristoteles, Mitchell,
Libration: w 6.48d, n 5.47d
at 0h trmntr xing Sabine

S- Delambre, Taylor, Descartes, Abulfeda Chain
at 0h trmntr xing Kant and Tacitus

Moon trav 12.106d @ 0.5 d/h

4 Vesta: 16h 52m 39s S 13d 50.6m
mag 5.9, trav 23 "/h
ca. 5.0d WNW of eta Oph ( Sabik )

Clear Skies

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