C/1996 E1 ( NEAT )

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Updated on May 20, 1997

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* Profile

Discovery Date March 15, 1996
Magnitude 16.2 mag
Discoverer Near-Earth-Asteroid Tracking Team (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

* Orbital Elements

   The following improved orbital elements, by Kenji Muraoka, are 
  from 230 observations 1996 Mar. 15 to Oct. 12, including 9 Planets, 
  Moon and 5 minor planets perturbations and non-gravitational effect 
  of style II.   The mean residual is +/- 0.69 arc seconds.

      Epoch  =  1996 July 16.0  TT       JDT = 2450280.5
          T  =  1996 July 27.34480       +/- 0.00027 (m.e.) TT
       Peri. =   81.10741                +/- 0.00041
       Node  =  149.84256                +/- 0.00004   (2000.0)
       Incl. =  114.47558                +/- 0.00003
          q  =    1.3588906              +/- 0.0000079 AU
          e  =    1.0006986              +/- 0.0000081
        1/a  =   -0.0005141              +/- 0.0000060 1/AU
         A1  =   +7.01                   +/- 0.39
         A2  =   +0.5787                 +/- 0.1266

* Finding Charts

* 1996 Jan. 8 - 1996 Sept.14
* 1996 Aug. 15 - 1996 Dec. 23

* Magnitudes Graph

        m1 = 7.4 + 5 log d + 23.0 log r

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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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