62P/Tsuchinshan 1 (1998)

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Updated on July 8, 1998

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* Profile

* Orbital Elements

   The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, 
  are from 130 observations 1965 to 1998, including 9 Planets, 
  Moon and 5 minor planets perturbations and non-gravitational 
  effect of style II.  The mean residual is +/- 1.00 arc seconds.

      Epoch  =  1998 Apr. 17.0  TT       JDT = 2450920.5
          T  =  1998 Apr. 19.05196       +/- 0.00047 (m.e.) TT
       Peri. =   22.76976                +/- 0.00033
       Node  =   96.81028                +/- 0.00011   (2000.0)
       Incl. =   10.49530                +/- 0.00002
          q  =    1.4958547              +/- 0.0000011 AU
          e  =    0.5766105              +/- 0.0000004
          a  =    3.5330461              +/- 0.0000012 AU
          n  =    0.14841580             +/- 0.00000007
          P  =    6.641                  +/- 0.0000033  years
         A1  =   +0.302                  +/- 0.016
         A2  =   +0.00912                +/- 0.00005

* Finding Charts

* 1997 Sept. 9 - 1998 June 16
* 1998 May 7 - 1998 Nov. 3

* Magnitudes Graph

        m1 =   9.0 + 5 log d +  30.0 log r  [   ,-50]  (             - 1998 Feb. 28)
        m1 = -15   + 5 log d + 150   log r  [-50,  0]  (1998 Feb. 28 - 1998 Apr. 19)
        m1 =   6.0 + 5 log d +  30.0 log r  [  0,   ]  (1998 Apr. 19 -             )

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The orbital elements are calculated by Kenji Muraoka.
The charts are made with StellaNavigator Ver.2.0 for Windows (AstroArts / ASCII).
The magnitudes graphs are made with Comet for Windows.

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