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Old June 20th 07, 05:55 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Ben
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Default MOON - VESTA, June 21, 07

Moon, June 21,
0h UTC

coords: 10 53 n 06 52
cent long trmntr: e 22.135d
sin long: 0.3768
ecc ell: 0.956
dist: 246 452 mi / 396 626 km
diam: 30.13'
illum: 35.4%

Features:
N- Lamont (ruin), Jansen, Vitruvius, Plinius, Dawes,
Littrow + rilles, Chacornac + rilles, Posidonius +
rilles, Burg, Lacus Mortis...
Libration: e 5.03d, n 0.78d
at 0h trmntr xing Ross

S- Cencorius, Toricelli, Theophilus/Cyrillus,
Beaumont, Polybius, Frascatorius, Piccolomini,
Stiborius, S Highlands...
at 0h trmntr xing W Catherina

Moon trav 11.181d @ 0.466 d/h

VESTA: 16 13 01 s 14 56
5.8 mag, trav 28"/h
Vesta is about 4.5 d WNW of Phi Oph

Regards,
Ben, 90.126 n 35.539