Printer-friendly version

IAU Minor Planet Center

Minor Planet Center

MPEC 2006-E15 : COMET C/2006 A1 (POJMANSKI)

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-E14 Read MPEC 2006-E16


M.P.E.C. 2006-E15                                Issued 2006 Mar. 4, 14:51 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

                          COMET C/2006 A1 (POJMANSKI)

Observations:
    CK06A010  C2006 02 26.33385 20 17 42.57 -16 02 52.9          10.0 T EE015844
    CK06A010  C2006 02 26.33529 20 17 42.64 -16 02 41.7          10.0 T EE015844
    CK06A010  C2006 02 26.33598 20 17 42.77 -16 02 33.5          10.0 T EE015844
    CK06A010  C2006 02 26.33653 20 17 42.81 -16 02 29.5           9.9 T EE015844
    CK06A010  C2006 02 26.33902 20 17 43.07 -16 02 05.8           9.9 T EE015844
    CK06A010  C2006 03 03.80598 20 30 07.03 -01 33 54.2                 EE015411
    CK06A010  C2006 03 03.80663 20 30 07.19 -01 33 48.1                 EE015411
    CK06A010  C2006 03 03.80858 20 30 07.52 -01 33 28.8                 EE015411
    CK06A010  C2006 03 03.89181 20 30 21.65 -01 20 01.2          12.3 N EE015D35
    CK06A010  C2006 03 03.89228 20 30 21.94 -01 19 56.1          11.9 N EE015D35
    CK06A010  C2006 03 03.89275 20 30 21.82 -01 19 50.5          12.0 N EE015D35
    CK06A010  C2006 03 04.21205 20 31 16.69 -00 27 53.8           9.8 N EE015213
    CK06A010  C2006 03 04.21620 20 31 17.34 -00 27 11.1           9.8 N EE015213
    CK06A010  C2006 03 04.21745 20 31 17.63 -00 27 00.6           9.8 N EE015213
    CK06A010  C2006 03 04.46340 20 32 00.77 +00 12 58.9          10.7 N EE015850
    CK06A010  C2006 03 04.46791 20 32 01.52 +00 13 40.2          10.6 N EE015850
    CK06A010  C2006 03 04.47241 20 32 02.23 +00 14 26.0          10.2 N EE015850

Observer details:
213 Observatorio Montcabre.  Observer R. Naves.  Measurer M. Campas.  0.30-m
    f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD.
411 Oizumi.  Observer T. Kobayashi.  0.41-m f/4.3 reflector + CCD.
844 Los Molinos.  Observer R. Salvo.  0.46-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD.
850 Cordell-Lorenz Observatory, Sewanee.  Observer D. T. Durig.  0.30-m f/5.8
    Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD.
D35 Lulin Observatory.  Observers H. C. Lin, T. C. Yang.  Measurer Q. Ye.
    0.40-m f/8.8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD.

Orbital elements:
    C/2006 A1 (Pojmanski)
Epoch 2006 Mar. 6.0 TT = JDT 2453800.5
T 2006 Feb. 22.18158 TT                                 MPC
q   0.5553968            (2000.0)            P               Q
z  +0.0003957      Peri.  351.18782     -0.84018480     -0.15537770
 +/-0.0000151      Node   211.34282     -0.41646395     -0.42877930
e   0.9997802      Incl.   92.73616     -0.34734317     +0.88994724
From 141 observations 2006 Jan. 4-Mar. 4, mean residual 0".57.

     The "original" and "future" barycentric values of 1/a are +0.000777
and +0.000779 (+/- 0.000015) AU^-1, respectively.

Brian G. Marsden             (C) Copyright 2006 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2006-E15

Read MPEC 2006-E14 Read MPEC 2006-E16


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


Valid HTML 4.01!