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Ben
 
Default MOON - VESTA, May 28, 07

Moon, May 28,
20h UTC

coords: 13 51 s 15 30
cent long trmntr: w 53.89
sin long: -0.8079
ecc ell: 0.5838
dist: 251 692 mi / 405 059 km
diam: 29.5'
illum: 90.6%

Features:
N- Marius + elev, Aristarchus Plateau (!), Mairan +
craterlets, Wollaston gamma, Craters N Limb-
Oenopides, Babbage (ruin), Pythagoras etc....
Libration: e 0.387d, n 5.19d
at 20h trmntr xing W Marius Hills

S- Flamsteed + ruin + elev, Billy, Gassendi (!),
Mersennius + rille, Leibig, de Gasparis,
Schiller Basin
at 20h trmntr xing Hansteen, Schickhard

Moon trav 10.892 d @ 0.458 d/h

VESTA, 0h May 29
16 34 28 s 14 01, 5.4 mag, trav 37"/h
Vesta is about midway between Zeta and
Phi Ophiuchi...

Cheers,
Ben, 90.126 n 35.539

 
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