Printer-friendly version

IAU Minor Planet Center

Minor Planet Center

MPEC 2001-U68: 2001 UD18

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


Read MPEC 2001-U67 Read MPEC 2001-U69


M.P.E.C. 2001-U68                                Issued 2001 Oct. 29, 22:15 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

                                   2001 UD18

Observations:
     K01U18D*tC2001 10 26.30995 02 09 15.47 +09 03 50.7          18.5 V      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 26.33401 02 10 38.28 +09 04 50.7                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 26.35645 02 11 55.60 +09 05 45.4                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 26.45624 02 17 42.20 +09 09 16.1                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 26.46126 02 18 00.13 +09 09 27.8                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 26.46613 02 18 17.48 +09 09 36.2                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 27.24770 03 05 38.55 +09 27 47.3                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 27.25205 03 05 52.27 +09 27 51.0                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 27.30931 03 08 55.08 +09 28 26.4                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 27.31853 03 09 24.73 +09 28 29.6                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 27.32695 03 09 51.54 +09 28 32.7                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 27.45671 03 16 39.55 +09 28 35.6                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 27.46075 03 16 52.31 +09 28 34.8                      691
     K01U18D tC2001 10 27.46566 03 17 07.35 +09 28 33.4                      691

Observer details:
691 Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak.  Observer A. F. Tubbiolo.
    0.9-m Spacewatch telescope.

Orbital elements:
2001 UD18
Epoch 2001 Oct. 18.0 TT = JDT 2452200.5                 Spahr
M 355.73441              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.40908240     Peri.  183.45554     +0.81498628     -0.57892031
a   1.7971963      Node   211.96211     +0.53280960     +0.76590472
e   0.4399195      Incl.    2.75769     +0.22784051     +0.27971635
P   2.41           H   27.6           G   0.15
From 14 observations 2001 Oct. 26-27.

Ephemeris:
2001 UD18                a,e,i = 1.80, 0.44, 3                   q = 1.0066
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2001 10 18    21 45.31   +01 14.3    0.031    1.014   123.2    55.4    22.1
2001 10 19    21 56.54   +01 41.9    0.028    1.012   125.1    53.6    21.8
2001 10 20    22 10.61   +02 16.1    0.025    1.011   127.7    51.2    21.5
2001 10 21    22 28.54   +02 59.0    0.022    1.010   131.3    47.8    21.1
2001 10 22    22 51.75   +03 53.0    0.019    1.009   136.2    43.1    20.7
2001 10 23    23 22.10   +05 00.0    0.017    1.008   142.8    36.6    20.2
2001 10 24    00 01.70   +06 19.2    0.015    1.008   151.8    27.8    19.7
2001 10 25    00 51.74   +07 42.9    0.013    1.007   163.2    16.6    19.2
2001 10 26    01 50.29   +08 52.7    0.013    1.007   175.5     4.4    18.6
2001 10 27    02 50.88   +09 29.2    0.013    1.007   168.4    11.4    18.9
2001 10 28    03 45.71   +09 28.9    0.014    1.007   156.1    23.5    19.5
2001 10 29    04 30.53   +09 05.3    0.016    1.007   146.1    33.4    20.0
2001 10 30    05 05.30   +08 32.9    0.018    1.007   138.5    40.8    20.5
2001 10 31    05 31.86   +08 00.4    0.021    1.007   132.9    46.3    21.0
2001 11 01    05 52.27   +07 31.2    0.023    1.007   128.8    50.2    21.3
2001 11 02    06 08.18   +07 06.0    0.026    1.008   125.7    53.0    21.7
2001 11 03    06 20.79   +06 44.8    0.029    1.009   123.6    55.0    22.0
2001 11 04    06 30.94   +06 26.8    0.032    1.009   122.0    56.5    22.2
2001 11 05    06 39.24   +06 11.8    0.036    1.010   120.9    57.4    22.5
2001 11 06    06 46.11   +05 59.0    0.039    1.011   120.1    58.0    22.7
2001 11 07    06 51.85   +05 48.2    0.042    1.012   119.6    58.3    22.8

Timothy B. Spahr             (C) Copyright 2001 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2001-U68

Read MPEC 2001-U67 Read MPEC 2001-U69


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


Valid HTML 4.01!