Printer-friendly version

IAU Minor Planet Center

Minor Planet Center

MPEC 2002-H17 : 2002 HW

The following Minor Planet Electronic Circular may be linked-to from your own Web pages, but must not otherwise be redistributed electronically.


Read MPEC 2002-H16 Read MPEC 2002-H18


M.P.E.C. 2002-H17                                Issued 2002 Apr. 18, 19:04 UT

     The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual
         minor planets and routine data on comets.  They are published
   on behalf of Commission 20 of the International Astronomical Union by the
          Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
                          Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.

             Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network

                              MPC@CFA.HARVARD.EDU
          URL http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html  ISSN 1523-6714

                                    2002 HW

Observations:
     K02H00W* C2002 04 16.18244 09 50 21.46 +20 49 35.4          19.3        704
     K02H00W  C2002 04 16.19638 09 50 24.95 +20 49 02.9          19.8        704
     K02H00W  C2002 04 16.21036 09 50 28.44 +20 48 27.4          19.9        704
     K02H00W  C2002 04 16.23830 09 50 35.54 +20 47 22.3          20.2        704
     K02H00W  C2002 04 17.12750 09 54 21.01 +20 12 38.4          19.7        704
     K02H00W  C2002 04 17.13751 09 54 23.41 +20 12 15.9          19.6 R      711
     K02H00W  C2002 04 17.14112 09 54 24.25 +20 12 05.2          19.8        704
     K02H00W  C2002 04 17.14251 09 54 24.62 +20 12 03.9          19.2 R      711
     K02H00W  C2002 04 17.14740 09 54 25.72 +20 11 51.6          19.3 R      711
     K02H00W  C2002 04 17.15475 09 54 27.63 +20 11 35.2          19.9        704
     K02H00W  C2002 04 17.16840 09 54 30.83 +20 11 02.0          20.2        704
     K02H00W  C2002 04 17.18203 09 54 34.21 +20 10 31.8          20.1        704
     K02H00W 1C2002 04 18.23542 09 58 51.29 +19 30 12.0                      658
     K02H00W 1C2002 04 18.23876 09 58 52.01 +19 30 04.2                      658
     K02H00W 1C2002 04 18.24188 09 58 52.88 +19 29 57.3                      658
     K02H00W 1C2002 04 18.24352 09 58 53.19 +19 29 53.0                      658

Observer details:
658 National Research Council of Canada.  Observers J. Clem, G. B. Poole,
    J. Stoesz.  Measurer D. D. Balam.  1.82-m Plaskett reflector + CCD.
704 Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico.  Observers M. Blythe, F. Shelly,
    M. Bezpalko, R. Huber, L. Manguso, S. Adams, J. Piscitelli.  Measurers
    J. Stuart, R. Sayer, J. B. Evans, H. Viggh.  1.0-m f/2.15 reflector + CCD.
711 McDonald Observatory.  Observer J. G. Ries.  0.76-m reflector + CCD.

Orbital elements:
2002 HW
Epoch 2002 Apr. 16.0 TT = JDT 2452380.5                 MPC
M  16.85715              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.24961560     Peri.   75.97898     -0.34121204     -0.93823618
a   2.4981676      Node    34.14548     +0.81819318     -0.32647569
e   0.6370102      Incl.    5.86277     +0.46274644     -0.11457095
P   3.95           H   19.0           G   0.15
From 16 observations 2002 Apr. 16-18.

Ephemeris:
2002 HW                  a,e,i = 2.50, 0.64, 6                   q = 0.9068
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2002 04 16    09 49.57   +20 56.9    0.479    1.290   116.4    44.1    19.7
2002 04 26    10 26.39   +15 02.1    0.589    1.379   117.1    40.5    20.1
2002 05 06    10 54.41   +10 20.3    0.717    1.468   115.6    38.3    20.6
2002 05 16    11 17.46   +06 32.0    0.858    1.558   112.7    36.8    21.1
2002 05 26    11 37.60   +03 20.6    1.011    1.647   109.0    35.6    21.6
2002 06 05    11 55.93   +00 35.2    1.174    1.736   104.7    34.4    22.0

Timothy B. Spahr             (C) Copyright 2002 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2002-H17

Read MPEC 2002-H16 Read MPEC 2002-H18


Our Web policy. Index to the CBAT/MPC/ICQ pages.


Valid HTML 4.01!