C/2000 D2 ( LINEAR )

Japanese version
Home page
Updated on July 28, 2002

---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Profile

Discovery Date February 25, 2000
Magnitude 18.1 mag
Discoverer Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research project

* Orbital Elements

   The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, are
  from 79 observations  2000 Feb. 25  to  Mar. 30, perturbations
  by 9 Planets, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account.
   The mean residual is +/- 0.52 arc seconds.

      Epoch  =  2000 Feb. 26.0  TT       JDT = 2451600.5
          T  =  2000 Mar.  8.61238       +/- 0.06348 (m.e.) TT
       Peri. =  117.68216                +/- 0.02507
       Node  =  235.88718                +/- 0.02940   (2000.0)
       Incl. =  156.99191                +/- 0.01244
          q  =    2.2976114              +/- 0.0247314 AU
          e  =    0.8670410              +/- 0.0010061
          a  =   17.2806047              +/- 0.1322866 AU
          n  =    0.01372037             +/- 0.00015755
          P  =   71.835                  +/- 0.8248721  years
                                        (+/- 301.3 days)

* Finding Charts

* Magnitudes Graph

        m1 = 13.5 + 5 log d + 10.0 log r

---------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Copyright(C) Seiichi Yoshida (comet@aerith.net). All rights reserved.