C/1998 M5 ( LINEAR )

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Updated on December 31, 2016

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* Profile

Discovery Date June 30, 1998
Magnitude 15.9 mag
Discoverer Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research project

* Pictures

* Orbital Elements

   The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, are 
  from 1150 observations 1998 June 30 to 1999 Dec. 27, perturbations 
  by 8 Planets, Moon and 3 minor planets were taken into account.
   The mean residual is +/- 0.64 arc seconds.

      Epoch  =  1999 Jan  = 2451200.5
          T  =  1999 Jan. 24.57126       +/- 0.00014 (m.e.) TT
       Peri. =  101.28447                +/- 0.00005
       Node  =  333.37676                +/- 0.00003   (2000.0)
       Incl. =   82.22886                +/- 0.00004
          q  =    1.7422802              +/- 0.0000009 AU
          e  =    0.9960389              +/- 0.0000025
        1/a  =   +0.0022735              +/- 0.0000014 1/AU
        ( P  =   9225 years )
  orig. 1/a  =   +0.0005144 
  fut.  1/a  =   +0.0026141 

* Finding Charts

* Magnitudes Graph

        m1 = 6.0 + 5 log d + 10.0 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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