Printer-friendly version

IAU Minor Planet Center

Minor Planet Center

MPEC 2002-C35 : 1999 GL4

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-C34 Read MPEC 2002-C36


M.P.E.C. 2002-C35                                Issued 2002 Feb. 8, 16:06 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

                                   1999 GL4

                           Revision to MPEC 1999-G28

Observations:
     J99G04L  C1998 09 25.29085 00 12 58.31 +00 09 49.7          19.7 R      645
     J99G04L  C1998 09 25.29169 00 12 58.24 +00 09 48.9                      645
     J99G04L  C1998 09 25.29418 00 12 58.01 +00 09 46.3                      645

Observer details:
645 Apache Point--Sloan Digitial Sky Survey.  Observers Sloan Digital Sky
    Survey Collaboration.  Images located and measured by DANEOPS (Gnadig).

First and last observations above in comparison with prediction:
Residuals in seconds of arc (or two decimals in degrees) and reference
980925 645 0.04- 0.01-    980925 645 0.04- 0.01-    MPC 35090

Orbital elements:
1999 GL4                                                             PHA 0.025
Epoch 2001 Oct. 18.0 TT = JDT 2452200.5                 MPC
M 319.50502              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.31979173     Peri.  293.62048     -0.38063484     -0.92472128
a   2.1178306      Node   178.74258     +0.88774791     -0.36625080
e   0.6036126      Incl.    7.24866     +0.25888369     -0.10368654
P   3.08           H   19.5           G   0.15           U   6
Residuals in seconds of arc
980925 645  0.1-  0.3+    990413 587  0.6-  0.2-    990416 422  0.2+  0.2-
980925 645  0.0   0.3+    990413 587  0.8-  0.9-    990416 422  0.4+  0.6-
980925 645  0.1-  0.4+    990413 557  0.5-  0.1+    990416 422  0.1-  0.1+
990412 704  0.3-  0.9-    990413 557  0.3-  0.1+    990419 704  0.8+  2.0+
990412 704  1.3+  1.6-    990413 557  0.3-  0.3+    990419 704  0.9+  0.4-
990412 704  0.0   0.1+    990414 046  0.2+  1.5+    990419 704 (2.3-  0.5+)
990412 704  0.2+  0.0     990414 046  0.2-  1.6+    990419 704  1.8-  1.5+
990413 557  0.3-  0.2+    990414 046  0.3+  0.9+    990422 658  0.7+  0.1-
990413 557  0.1-  0.3-    990414 046  0.2+  0.6+    990422 658  1.3+  0.4+
990413 557  0.6-  0.3+    990414 046  0.3-  0.0     990422 658  0.7+  0.2-
990413 426  0.1+  0.4+    990414 046  0.8+  0.1-    990522 693  0.5-  0.7-
990413 426  0.1+  1.4+    990415 118  0.1-  0.3-    990522 658  0.5-  0.6-
990413 426  0.1+  0.1-    990415 118  0.1+  0.0     990522 693  0.8-  1.6-
990413 422  0.2-  0.3-    990415 118  0.3+  0.4-    990522 658  0.3-  0.9+
990413 422  0.0   0.1+    990415 422  0.5-  0.3-    990522 658  0.1-  0.2-
990413 422  0.3+  0.6-    990415 422  0.0   0.3-
990413 422  0.1+  1.1-    990415 422  0.4-  0.5-

Ephemeris:
1999 GL4                 a,e,i = 2.12, 0.60, 7                   q = 0.8395
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2002 02 05    01 00.66   -02 08.1    0.797    0.873    57.5    72.2    21.2
2002 02 15    01 36.06   +00 58.5    0.711    0.845    56.9    78.3    21.1
2002 02 25    02 16.34   +04 33.7    0.621    0.841    57.6    83.8    21.0
2002 03 07    03 03.80   +08 43.0    0.536    0.862    60.1    87.2    20.9
2002 03 17    04 02.32   +13 25.4    0.465    0.905    65.2    87.0    20.7
2002 03 27    05 15.72   +18 05.8    0.418    0.965    73.4    82.1    20.4
2002 04 06    06 41.69   +21 14.2    0.408    1.039    83.7    73.3    20.2
2002 04 16    08 07.19   +21 33.9    0.439    1.120    93.5    63.4    20.2
2002 04 26    09 18.71   +19 35.3    0.507    1.206   100.4    55.1    20.4
2002 05 06    10 13.35   +16 38.9    0.604    1.295   104.0    49.1    20.8
2002 05 16    10 54.91   +13 34.1    0.722    1.384   104.8    44.9    21.2
2002 05 26    11 27.72   +10 38.5    0.856    1.473   103.7    41.9    21.6
2002 06 05    11 54.82   +07 55.9    1.003    1.561   101.4    39.6    22.0

Gareth V. Williams           (C) Copyright 2002 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2002-C35

Read MPEC 2002-C34 Read MPEC 2002-C36


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


Valid HTML 4.01!