Printer-friendly version

IAU Minor Planet Center

Minor Planet Center

MPEC 2002-L41 : 2002 LT24

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-L40 Read MPEC 2002-L42


M.P.E.C. 2002-L41                                Issued 2002 June 10, 17:03 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 LT24

Observations:
     K02L24T* C2002 06 09.37421 20 11 51.03 -08 34 24.0          18.3        704
     K02L24T  C2002 06 09.38808 20 11 39.36 -08 34 37.9          18.8        704
     K02L24T  C2002 06 09.40196 20 11 27.64 -08 34 52.3          18.5        704
     K02L24T  C2002 06 09.41583 20 11 15.81 -08 35 07.2          18.8        704
     K02L24T  C2002 06 09.42968 20 11 04.13 -08 35 20.6          18.6        704
     K02L24T  C2002 06 10.05435 20 02 30.31 -08 46 07.7          18.3 R      620
     K02L24T  C2002 06 10.06338 20 02 22.26 -08 46 18.6          18.0 R      620
     K02L24T  C2002 06 10.06465 20 02 21.33 -08 46 18.8          17.8 R      620
     K02L24T  C2002 06 10.26792 19 59 31.16 -08 49 27.0          18.2 R      854
     K02L24T  C2002 06 10.26910 19 59 30.15 -08 49 28.7          18.5 R      854
     K02L24T  C2002 06 10.27145 19 59 28.10 -08 49 31.3          18.3 R      854
     K02L24T  C2002 06 10.37022 19 57 58.84 -08 51 17.7          18.2 R      854
     K02L24T  C2002 06 10.38086 19 57 49.14 -08 51 29.0          18.4 R      854

Observer details:
620 Observatorio Astronomico de Mallorca.  Observers S. Sanchez, M. Blasco.
    0.40-m f/2.0 Schmidt + CCD.  0.30-m f/8.8 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD.
704 Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico.  Observers M. Blythe, F. Shelly,
    M. Bezpalko, R. Huber, L. Manguso, S. Adams, J. Piscitelli.  Measurers
    J. Stuart, R. Sayer, J. B. Evans, H. Viggh.  1.0-m f/2.15 reflector + CCD.
854 Sabino Canyon Observatory, Tucson.  Observer J. E. McGaha.  0.30-m f/10
    Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD.

Orbital elements:
2002 LT24
Epoch 2002 May 26.0 TT = JDT 2452420.5                  MPC
M 137.04419              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.61251914     Peri.  282.07572     +0.02131997     -0.99976809
a   0.7202216      Node   166.70152     +0.92233414     +0.01849595
e   0.4944116      Incl.    0.75672     +0.38580461     +0.01103041
P   0.61           H   22.6           G   0.15
From 13 observations 2002 June 9-10.

Ephemeris:
2002 LT24                a,e,i = 0.72, 0.49, 1                   q = 0.3641
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2002 06 05    21 00.00   -07 24.4    0.087    1.059   118.5    57.4    19.5
2002 06 10    20 03.25   -08 43.7    0.071    1.068   136.6    40.8    18.6
2002 06 15    18 39.01   -09 55.3    0.062    1.074   159.3    19.6    17.7
2002 06 20    17 02.34   -09 55.4    0.063    1.076   161.8    17.1    17.7
2002 06 25    15 44.36   -08 52.0    0.075    1.076   141.4    36.2    18.6
2002 06 30    14 53.49   -07 46.6    0.092    1.072   124.8    51.1    19.5
2002 07 05    14 21.76   -07 01.4    0.113    1.065   112.5    61.8    20.2
2002 07 10    14 01.47   -06 34.2    0.134    1.055   102.9    69.9    20.8
2002 07 15    13 47.90   -06 19.0    0.156    1.042    95.0    76.4    21.3
2002 07 20    13 38.26   -06 10.3    0.177    1.025    87.9    82.1    21.8
2002 07 25    13 30.80   -06 03.9    0.197    1.005    81.4    87.4    22.2

Timothy B. Spahr             (C) Copyright 2002 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2002-L41

Read MPEC 2002-L40 Read MPEC 2002-L42


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


Valid HTML 4.01!