Printer-friendly version

IAU Minor Planet Center

Minor Planet Center

MPEC 2004-B22 : 1999 AJ39

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


Read MPEC 2004-B21 Read MPEC 2004-B23


M.P.E.C. 2004-B22                                Issued 2004 Jan. 19, 11:37 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.

         Supported in part by the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation
             Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network

                              MPC@CFA.HARVARD.EDU
          URL http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html  ISSN 1523-6714

                                   1999 AJ39

Additional Observations:
     J99A39J  C2004 01 19.26956 08 44 57.79 +16 09 27.3          21.6 V EB022691
     J99A39J  C2004 01 19.29846 08 44 52.92 +16 09 19.8          21.6 V EB022691
     J99A39J  C2004 01 19.32858 08 44 47.77 +16 09 11.5          21.6 V EB022691
     J99A39J  C2004 01 19.40691 08 44 34.27 +16 08 49.8          21.2 R EB022651
     J99A39J  C2004 01 19.40848 08 44 34.00 +16 08 48.9          21.3 R EB022651
     J99A39J  C2004 01 19.41007 08 44 33.73 +16 08 48.3          21.1 R EB022651

Observer details:
651 Grasslands Observatory, Tucson.  Observer J. E. McGaha.  0.62-m f/5.1
    Newtonian + CCD.
691 Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak.  Observer M. Block.  0.9-m f/3 reflector
    + CCD.

Orbital elements:
1999 AJ39
Epoch 2003 Dec. 27.0 TT = JDT 2453000.5                 MPC
M 165.08188              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.79130232     Peri.    1.47900     +0.50119404     +0.85155030
a   1.1576424      Node   298.62325     -0.79571777     +0.38366745
e   0.2768463      Incl.   10.09368     -0.34005553     +0.35729732
P   1.25           H   22.4           G   0.15           U   6
Residuals in seconds of arc
990115 691  0.8-  0.3-    990116 691  0.8+  0.7+    040119 691  0.3+  0.1-
990115 691  0.0   0.0     990119 691  0.0   0.2-    040119 691  0.5+  0.0
990115 691  0.7-  0.3-    990119 691  0.3-  0.0     040119 651  0.0   0.5+
990116 691  0.9+  0.2-    990119 691  0.8-  0.1-    040119 651  0.1-  0.1+
990116 691  0.8+  0.2+    040119 691  0.7-  0.4-    040119 651  0.0   0.1-

Ephemeris:
1999 AJ39                a,e,i = 1.16, 0.28, 10                  q = 0.8372
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2004 01 16    08 53.71   +16 24.6    0.508    1.478   163.8    10.7    22.5
2004 01 26    08 25.87   +15 36.7    0.492    1.476   176.5     2.3    22.0
2004 02 05    07 58.05   +14 43.3    0.500    1.470   162.2    11.8    22.4
2004 02 15    07 35.30   +13 49.0    0.529    1.460   146.9    21.7    22.9

Timothy B. Spahr             (C) Copyright 2004 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2004-B22

Read MPEC 2004-B21 Read MPEC 2004-B23


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


Valid HTML 4.01!