Printer-friendly version

IAU Minor Planet Center

Minor Planet Center

MPEC 2006-E07 : 2005 UN398

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


Read MPEC 2006-E06 Read MPEC 2006-E08


M.P.E.C. 2006-E07                                Issued 2006 Mar. 3, 15:18 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
                  Supported in part by the TABASGO Foundation
             Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network

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

                                  2005 UN398

Additional Observations:
     K05Ud8N 9 1985 09 07.56697 23 27 23.34 -12 58 18.0                 EE007260
     K05Ud8N 9 1985 09 07.61905 23 27 21.96 -12 58 49.2                 EE007260
     K05Ud8N 9 1995 10 15.56755 01 53 13.29 -07 54 07.5                 EE007260
     K05Ud8N 9 1995 10 15.63005 01 53 11.40 -07 54 31.9                 EE007260

Observer details:
260 Siding Spring-DSS.  Observer M. Hartley.  Measurers M. Tombelli, S. Foglia,
    G. Forti, M. Read.  1.2-m Schmidt.

Orbital elements:
2005 UN398
Epoch 2006 Mar. 6.0 TT = JDT 2453800.5                  MPC
M  20.85843              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.09954077     Peri.  233.36546     +0.95653945     -0.26349703
a   4.6110735      Node   141.46435     +0.28713173     +0.92581382
e   0.5165107      Incl.   11.56569     -0.05086899     +0.27099461
P   9.90           H   13.9           G   0.15           U   2
From 76 observations at 3 oppositions, 1985-2006, mean residual 0".45.

Ephemeris:
2005 UN398               a,e,i = 4.61, 0.52, 12                  q = 2.2294
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2006 02 24    03 48.28   +09 13.3    2.696    2.738    81.9    21.0    19.3
2006 03 06    04 00.39   +10 33.8    2.864    2.781    75.2    20.2    19.4
2006 03 16    04 13.37   +11 48.5    3.031    2.826    68.7    19.1    19.5
2006 03 26    04 27.04   +12 56.6    3.194    2.871    62.3    17.9    19.6
2006 04 05    04 41.28   +13 57.6    3.353    2.916    56.1    16.5    19.7

Timothy B. Spahr             (C) Copyright 2006 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2006-E07

Read MPEC 2006-E06 Read MPEC 2006-E08


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


Valid HTML 4.01!