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MPEC 2000-L58: COMET C/2000 L3 (SOHO)

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M.P.E.C. 2000-L58                                Issued 2000 June 14, 23:00 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/2000 L3 (SOHO)

Observations:
    CK00L030  S2000 06 10.16472 05 12 48.4  +21 17 03                        249
    CK00L030  s2000 06 10.16472 2 +0.00593103 +0.00854936 +0.00325966        249
    CK00L030  S2000 06 10.18829 05 12 47.7  +21 21 27                        249
    CK00L030  s2000 06 10.18829 2 +0.00592840 +0.00854980 +0.00326051        249
    CK00L030  S2000 06 10.22923 05 12 52.6  +21 29 17                        249
    CK00L030  s2000 06 10.22923 2 +0.00592384 +0.00855057 +0.00326197        249
    CK00L030  S2000 06 10.24614 05 12 55.4  +21 32 39                        249
    CK00L030  s2000 06 10.24614 2 +0.00592195 +0.00855089 +0.00326258        249
    CK00L030  S2000 06 10.25423 05 12 56.7  +21 34 19                        249
    CK00L030  s2000 06 10.25423 2 +0.00592105 +0.00855104 +0.00326286        249
    CK00L030  S2000 06 10.27090 05 12 58.5  +21 37 49                        249
    CK00L030  s2000 06 10.27090 2 +0.00591919 +0.00855136 +0.00326346        249
    CK00L030  S2000 06 10.28756 05 13 00.5  +21 41 14                        249
    CK00L030  s2000 06 10.28756 2 +0.00591733 +0.00855167 +0.00326406        249
    CK00L030  S2000 06 10.31341 05 13 05.5  +21 46 50                        249
    CK00L030  s2000 06 10.31341 2 +0.00591444 +0.00855216 +0.00326498        249
    CK00L030  S2000 06 10.33788 05 13 10.5  +21 52 16                        249
    CK00L030  s2000 06 10.33788 2 +0.00591171 +0.00855262 +0.00326586        249

Observer details:
249 SOHO.  SOHO-LASCO coronagraph C2.  Comet reported by M. Oates, M. Boschat
    and X. Leprette, measurements by D. Hammer and D. A. Biesecker, reduction
    by B. G. Marsden.

Orbital elements:
    C/2000 L3 (SOHO)
T 2000 June 10.57 TT                                    Marsden
q   0.0054               (2000.0)            P               Q
                   Peri.   61.59        +0.20398        -0.96011
                   Node   340.31        -0.97120        -0.17389
e   1.0            Incl.  145.41        +0.12313        +0.21898
From 9 observations 2000 June 10.

Brian G. Marsden             (C) Copyright 2000 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2000-L58

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