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MPEC 2008-E42 : 2008 EE5

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M.P.E.C. 2008-E42                                Issued 2008 Mar. 4, 20:13 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://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html  ISSN 1523-6714

                                   2008 EE5

Observations:
     K08E05E* C2008 03 04.17185 03 35 41.10 +32 55 25.6          20.6 V EE042G96
     K08E05E  C2008 03 04.17697 03 35 43.00 +32 55 04.6          20.0 V EE042G96
     K08E05E  C2008 03 04.18199 03 35 44.80 +32 54 44.6          20.0 V EE042G96
     K08E05E  C2008 03 04.18715 03 35 46.75 +32 54 23.9          20.3 V EE042G96
     K08E05E  C2008 03 04.19167 03 35 48.48 +32 54 05.4          19.9 V EE042G96
     K08E05E  C2008 03 04.19684 03 35 50.35 +32 53 44.8          19.9 V EE042G96
     K08E05E  C2008 03 04.20197 03 35 52.22 +32 53 24.1          20.1 V EE042G96
     K08E05E  C2008 03 04.20715 03 35 54.20 +32 53 03.7          20.7 V EE042G96
     K08E05E  C2008 03 04.80201 03 39 34.48 +32 13 38.2                 EE042J95
     K08E05E  C2008 03 04.80964 03 39 37.27 +32 13 07.3                 EE042J95
     K08E05E  C2008 03 04.81732 03 39 39.99 +32 12 36.9          20.8 R EE042J95

Observer details:
G96 Mt. Lemmon Survey.  Observer A. Boattini.  Measurers E. C. Beshore,
    A. Boattini, G. J. Garradd, A. R. Gibbs, A. D. Grauer, R. E. Hill,
    R. A. Kowalski, S. M. Larson, R. H. McNaught.  1.5-m reflector + CCD.
J95 Great Shefford.  Observer P. Birtwhistle.  0.40-m f/6.0 Schmidt-Cassegrain
    + CCD.

Orbital elements:
2008 EE5                                            PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0053 AU
Epoch 2008 Feb. 24.0 TT = JDT 2454520.5                 MPC
M 154.03803              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.34315779     Peri.  359.77948     +0.80707893     +0.43550783
a   0.8135508      Node   323.97390     -0.54067829     +0.27379102
e   0.2198896      Incl.   42.67765     -0.23725635     +0.85753799
P   0.73           H   19.2           G   0.15
From 11 observations 2008 Mar. 4-4.

Ephemeris:
2008 EE5                 a,e,i = 0.81, 0.22, 43                  Q = 0.9924
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2008 03 05    03 40.78   +32 00.7    0.471    0.990    76.0    76.5    20.2
2008 03 15    04 30.50   +21 22.0    0.521    0.992    74.6    75.0    20.4
2008 03 25    05 04.91   +12 15.8    0.586    0.989    72.0    73.6    20.6
2008 04 04    05 30.17   +04 51.0    0.655    0.978    68.9    72.5    20.8
2008 04 14    05 49.71   -01 13.2    0.719    0.962    65.5    71.6    20.9
2008 04 24    06 05.26   -06 18.9    0.771    0.939    62.1    71.3    21.0

Timothy B. Spahr             (C) Copyright 2008 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2008-E42

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