C/1999 T3 ( LINEAR )

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Updated on March 12, 2002

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* Profile

Discovery Date October 3, 1999
Magnitude 18.3 mag
Discoverer Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research project

* Pictures

* Orbital Elements

   The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, are
  from 174 observations 1999 Oct. 3 to 2000 Feb. 4, perturbations
  by 9 Planets, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account.
   The mean residual is +/- 0.64 arc seconds.

      Epoch  =  2000 Sep. 13.0  TT       JDT = 2451800.5
          T  =  2000 Sep.  1.68174       +/- 0.06388 (m.e.) TT
       Peri. =  211.33740                +/- 0.00555
       Node  =  223.51187                +/- 0.00194   (2000.0)
       Incl. =  104.75245                +/- 0.00524
          q  =    5.3651610              +/- 0.0002801 AU
          e  =    0.9969272              +/- 0.0001188
        1/a  =   +0.0005727              +/- 0.0000221 1/AU
  orig. 1/a  =   +0.000234
  fut.  1/a  =   +0.001148

* Finding Charts

* Magnitudes Graph

        m1 = 6.5 + 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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