Circular No. 5970

Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION

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MARSDEN@CFA or GREEN@CFA (.SPAN, .BITNET or .HARVARD.EDU)

COMET MUELLER (1994c)

Parabolic orbital elements from MPC 23321:

T = 1993 Dec. 1.2485 TT  ω = 100.^{o}4432
Ω = 5.0192 }2000.0
q = 1.777299 AU  i = 145.3511
1994TT α_{2000}  δ_{2000}  Δ  r  ϵ  β  m_{1}
Apr. 8 13^{h}49.^{m}25 + 7^{o}50.^{′}7 1.421 2.392 161.^{o}7 7.^{o}6 16.5
13 13 25.59 + 8 26.7 1.457 2.432 162.6  7.1 16.7
18 13 03.32 + 8 51.1 1.513 2.473 158.1  8.7 16.8
23 12 43.04 + 9 04.1 1.587 2.514 150.9 11.2 17.0
28 12 25.06 + 9 07.4 1.678 2.556 143.1 13.7 17.2
May 3 12 09.46 + 9 02.7 1.782 2.598 135.4 15.8 17.4
8 11 56.17 + 8 51.7 1.898 2.641 127.9 17.6 17.6
13 11 45.01 + 8 36.1 2.022 2.684 120.8 18.9 17.8
18 11 35.76 + 8 17.0 2.152 2.727 114.1 19.8 18.0
23 11 28.17 + 7 55.5 2.288 2.770 107.8 20.4 18.2
28 11 22.01 + 7 32.1 2.427 2.814 101.8 20.6 18.4

COMET SHOEMAKER-LEVY (1994d)

Parabolic orbital elements from MPC 23322:

T = 1994 May 27.3322 TT  ω = 57.^{o}3602
Ω = 166.5614 }2000.0
q = 1.160114 AU  i = 131.2843
1994TT α_{2000}  δ_{2000}  Δ  r  ϵ  β  m_{1}
Apr. 8 7^{h}56.^{m}00 +31^{o}50.^{′}2 0.862 1.395 96.^{o}7 45.^{o}5 14.1
13 7 33.40 +35 23.2 0.972 1.354 86.6 47.7 14.3
18 7 15.24 +37 58.7 1.086 1.316 77.9 48.3 14.4
23 7 00.61 +39 56.1 1.201 1.281 70.4 47.7 14.5
28 6 48.72 +41 27.9 1.314 1.250 63.6 46.2 14.6
May 3 6 38.93 +42 42.5 1.423 1.223 57.4 44.0 14.6
8 6 30.74 +43 45.1 1.526 1.200 51.8 41.3 14.7
13 6 23.77 +44 39.5 1.622 1.182 46.6 38.4 14.8
18 6 17.73 +45 28.1 1.710 1.170 41.8 35.2 14.8
23 6 12.38 +46 12.5 1.789 1.162 37.5 32.0 14.9
28 6 07.55 +46 54.0 1.858 1.160 33.7 29.0 15.0

1994 April 8 Daniel W. E. Green