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MPEC 2005-C34 : COMET C/2004 L1 (LINEAR)

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M.P.E.C. 2005-C34                                Issued 2005 Feb.  9, 16:01 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 Brinson Foundation
             Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network

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

                           COMET C/2004 L1 (LINEAR)

Observations:
    CK04L010  C2005 01 21.29941 15 36 32.98 -29 27 58.3          16.4 T EC034844
    CK04L010  C2005 01 21.30959 15 36 32.70 -29 28 04.9          16.6 T EC034844
    CK04L010  C2005 01 21.32032 15 36 32.28 -29 28 12.3          16.8 T EC034844
    CK04L010  C2005 02 07.30635 15 19 16.09 -32 41 21.4          15.8 N EC034I77
    CK04L010  C2005 02 07.31041 15 19 15.88 -32 41 24.4          16.3 N EC034I77
    CK04L010  C2005 02 07.31620 15 19 15.36 -32 41 28.4          16.9 N EC034I77
    CK04L010  C2005 02 07.32187 15 19 14.82 -32 41 31.7          16.9 N EC034I77
    CK04L010  C2005 02 08.31913 15 17 37.22 -32 54 19.5          16.8 N EC034I77
    CK04L010  C2005 02 08.32113 15 17 37.02 -32 54 21.1          16.9 N EC034I77
    CK04L010  C2005 02 08.32314 15 17 36.78 -32 54 22.3          16.6 N EC034I77

Observer details:
844 Los Molinos.  Observer S. Roland.  0.46-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD.
I77 CEAMIG-REA Observatory, Belo Horizonte.  Observers C. Jacques, E. Pimentel.
    Measurer C. Jacques.  0.30-m f/3.0 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD.

Orbital elements:
    C/2004 L1 (LINEAR)
Epoch 2005 Mar. 11.0 TT = JDT 2453440.5
T 2005 Mar. 30.09660 TT                                 MPC
q   2.0474097            (2000.0)            P               Q
z  +0.0011194      Peri.  243.57754     -0.94639911     -0.01921816
 +/-0.0000023      Node    66.17628     +0.06265735     +0.96834303
e   0.9977082      Incl.  159.36218     -0.31686399     +0.24888237
From 151 observations 2004 June 12-2005 Feb. 8, mean residual 0".61.

     The "original" and "future" barycentric values of 1/a are +0.001382
and +0.001355 (+/- 0.000002) AU^-1, respectively.

Brian G. Marsden             (C) Copyright 2005 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2005-C34

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