C/1999 S3 ( LINEAR )

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Updated on November 11, 2005

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* Profile

Discovery Date September 24, 1999
Magnitude 15.7 mag
Discoverer Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research project

* Pictures

* Orbital Elements

   The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, are
  from 616 observations 1999 Sept. 24 to 2000 Feb. 29, perturbations
  by 9 Planets, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account.
   The mean residual is +/- 0.57 arc seconds.

      Epoch  =  1999 Oct. 29.0  TT       JDT = 2451480.5
          T  =  1999 Nov.  9.01313       +/- 0.00068 (m.e.) TT
       Peri. =   44.12690                +/- 0.00030
       Node  =   11.87847                +/- 0.00015   (2000.0)
       Incl. =   70.56147                +/- 0.00014
          q  =    1.8949606              +/- 0.0003042 AU
          e  =    0.8999951              +/- 0.0000112
          a  =   18.9486696              +/- 0.0021711 AU
          n  =    0.01194912             +/- 0.00000205
          P  =   82.484                  +/- 0.0141763  years
                                        (+/- 5.2 days)

* Finding Charts

* Magnitudes Graph

        m1 = -5.5 + 5 log d + 60 log r(t - 15)

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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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