Printer-friendly version

IAU Minor Planet Center

Minor Planet Center

MPEC 2000-E39: COMET C/1999 E2 (SOHO)

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


Read MPEC 2000-E38 Read MPEC 2000-E40


M.P.E.C. 2000-E39                                Issued 2000 Mar.  9, 22:08 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

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

                            COMET C/1999 E2 (SOHO)

Observations:
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.51256 23 19 04.6  -08 35 10                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.51256 2 +0.00867872 -0.00060029 +0.00036958        249
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.52923 23 18 57.0  -08 34 08                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.52923 2 +0.00867976 -0.00059600 +0.00037113        249
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.57090 23 18 22.3  -08 31 10                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.57090 2 +0.00868238 -0.00058527 +0.00037498        249
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.61257 23 17 49.5  -08 28 05                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.61257 2 +0.00868498 -0.00057454 +0.00037882        249
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.63756 23 17 30.0  -08 25 32                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.63756 2 +0.00868654 -0.00056811 +0.00038113        249
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.65423 23 17 18.5  -08 24 34                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.65423 2 +0.00868757 -0.00056382 +0.00038267        249
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.67923 23 16 57.6  -08 22 35                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.67923 2 +0.00868912 -0.00055738 +0.00038497        249
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.69590 23 16 44.6  -08 21 21                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.69590 2 +0.00869016 -0.00055309 +0.00038651        249
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.72090 23 16 25.3  -08 19 32                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.72090 2 +0.00869170 -0.00054666 +0.00038881        249
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.76258 23 15 51.0  -08 16 06                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.76258 2 +0.00869427 -0.00053594 +0.00039265        249
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.77923 23 15 36.9  -08 14 45                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.77923 2 +0.00869529 -0.00053166 +0.00039418        249
    CJ99E020  S1999 03 02.82090 23 15 02.7  -08 10 52                        249
    CJ99E020  s1999 03 02.82090 2 +0.00869785 -0.00052095 +0.00039801        249

Observer details:
249 SOHO.  SOHO-LASCO coronagraph C3.  Comet detection by M. Oates,
    measurements by D. Biesecker, reduction by B. G. Marsden.

Orbital elements:
    C/1999 E2 (SOHO)
T 1999 Mar. 3.72 TT                                     Marsden
q   0.0051               (2000.0)            P               Q
                   Peri.   82.50        +0.19093        -0.98069
                   Node     4.27        -0.96178        -0.19551
e   1.0            Incl.  145.42        +0.19629        -0.00404
From 12 observations 1999 Mar. 2.

Brian G. Marsden             (C) Copyright 2000 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2000-E39

Read MPEC 2000-E38 Read MPEC 2000-E40


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


Valid HTML 4.01!