Printer-friendly version

IAU Minor Planet Center

Minor Planet Center

MPEC 2002-K23 : 2002 KJ3

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-K22 Read MPEC 2002-K24


M.P.E.C. 2002-K23                                Issued 2002 May 20, 18:02 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 KJ3

Observations:
     K02K03J  C2002 05 02.26594 14 23 39.99 -11 39 21.7          18.8 R      699
     K02K03J  C2002 05 02.27953 14 23 38.74 -11 39 22.7                      699
     K02K03J  C2002 05 02.29310 14 23 37.43 -11 39 23.7                      699
     K02K03J  C2002 05 02.30668 14 23 36.26 -11 39 25.3                      699
     K02K03J* C2002 05 18.22491 13 59 40.62 -12 23 43.9          19.8        644
     K02K03J  C2002 05 18.24668 13 59 38.55 -12 23 49.4          19.7        644
     K02K03J  C2002 05 18.26792 13 59 36.53 -12 23 55.1          19.8        644
     K02K03J  C2002 05 18.84852 13 58 45.44 -12 26 23.9                      246
     K02K03J  C2002 05 18.84976 13 58 45.39 -12 26 24.9                      246
     K02K03J  C2002 05 18.85225 13 58 45.14 -12 26 25.2                      246
     K02K03J  C2002 05 18.85487 13 58 44.83 -12 26 26.0                      246
     K02K03J  C2002 05 19.20755 13 58 13.93 -12 27 54.8          19.7        644
     K02K03J  C2002 05 19.21844 13 58 12.90 -12 27 57.5          19.8        644
     K02K03J  C2002 05 19.22910 13 58 11.91 -12 28 00.4          19.7        644
     K02K03J  C2002 05 19.25138 13 58 09.62 -12 28 04.9          19.7 R      651
     K02K03J  C2002 05 19.25473 13 58 09.39 -12 28 07.1          19.8 R      651
     K02K03J  C2002 05 19.25834 13 58 09.07 -12 28 06.4          19.9 R      651

Observer details:
246 Klet Observatory-KLENOT.  Observers J. Ticha, M. Tichy, M. Kocer.
    1.06-m KLENOT telescope + CCD.
644 Palomar Mountain/NEAT.  Observers E. F. Helin, S. Pravdo, K. Lawrence,
    M. Hicks, R. Thicksten.  1.2-m Schmidt + CCD.
651 Grasslands Observatory, Tucson.  Observer J. E. McGaha.  0.62-m f/5.1
    reflector + CCD.
699 Lowell Observatory-LONEOS.  Observer B. A. Skiff.  0.59-m LONEOS Schmidt
    + CCD.

Orbital elements:
2002 KJ3
Epoch 2002 May 6.0 TT = JDT 2452400.5                   MPC
M 330.96494              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.28566405     Peri.  252.24790     +0.50125834     +0.86114242
a   2.2833141      Node    48.14056     -0.74456951     +0.47912091
e   0.4919724      Incl.    6.52992     -0.44085862     +0.16993202
P   3.45           H   19.0           G   0.15
From 17 observations 2002 May 2-19.

Ephemeris:
2002 KJ3                 a,e,i = 2.28, 0.49, 7                   q = 1.1600
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2002 05 16    14 03.01   -12 14.8    0.527    1.513   157.9    14.5    19.3
2002 05 26    13 48.90   -13 02.7    0.500    1.452   145.3    23.4    19.4
2002 06 05    13 38.41   -14 16.2    0.485    1.395   133.7    31.7    19.5
2002 06 15    13 33.32   -15 59.4    0.478    1.341   123.6    39.2    19.6
2002 06 25    13 34.56   -18 14.4    0.475    1.291   115.1    45.5    19.7
2002 07 05    13 42.35   -20 59.8    0.472    1.248   108.3    50.7    19.7
2002 07 15    13 56.91   -24 12.3    0.469    1.212   103.1    54.8    19.8
2002 07 25    14 18.60   -27 46.0    0.465    1.185    99.5    57.7    19.8
2002 08 04    14 48.02   -31 28.6    0.461    1.167    97.4    59.5    19.8
2002 08 14    15 26.09   -35 00.6    0.459    1.160    96.7    60.1    19.8
2002 08 24    16 13.26   -37 52.8    0.461    1.164    97.4    59.5    19.8
2002 09 03    17 08.24   -39 28.7    0.472    1.178    98.9    57.8    19.8
2002 09 13    18 07.33   -39 19.8    0.493    1.202   101.0    55.2    19.9
2002 09 23    19 05.11   -37 22.3    0.528    1.235   103.1    52.3    20.0
2002 10 03    19 57.19   -34 00.5    0.579    1.276   104.6    49.3    20.2
2002 10 13    20 42.06   -29 50.8    0.645    1.324   105.3    46.6    20.4
2002 10 23    21 20.20   -25 24.9    0.728    1.376   105.0    44.3    20.7
2002 11 02    21 52.88   -21 02.9    0.825    1.433   103.7    42.3    21.0
2002 11 12    22 21.50   -16 54.5    0.936    1.493   101.6    40.5    21.3
2002 11 22    22 47.14   -13 03.3    1.059    1.554    98.7    38.9    21.6
2002 12 02    23 10.61   -09 29.3    1.194    1.618    95.3    37.4    21.9
2002 12 12    23 32.55   -06 11.1    1.338    1.682    91.5    35.8    22.2

Timothy B. Spahr             (C) Copyright 2002 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2002-K23

Read MPEC 2002-K22 Read MPEC 2002-K24


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


Valid HTML 4.01!