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(meteorobs) Comet Lynn -- Orbital elements and an ephemeris
Here's the latest on the new comet Lynn. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like
it's going to get much brighter than it is right now.
-- joe rao
Orbital Elements
The following orbital elements are taken from IAUC 7224:
C/1999 N2 (Lynn)
T 1999 July 23.099 TT Marsden
q 0.76096 (2000.0) P Q
Peri. 357.816 -0.256028 -0.377588
Node 254.322 -0.872300 -0.306469
e 1.0 Incl. 112.443 -0.416584 +0.873787
From 22 observations 1999 July 14-15.
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Ephemeris
The following ephemeris is at intervals of five days.
Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase m1 m2
1999 07 11 09 07.48 -21 50.1 0.560 0.797 51.3 95.4 7.3
1999 07 16 10 10.90 -10 54.7 0.591 0.774 49.3 95.4 7.2
1999 07 21 10 57.95 -00 52.8 0.671 0.762 48.6 90.1 7.5
1999 07 26 11 30.97 +06 56.4 0.784 0.763 48.1 82.1 7.8
1999 07 31 11 54.09 +12 45.3 0.913 0.777 47.1 73.4 8.2
1999 08 05 12 10.64 +17 06.8 1.046 0.802 45.8 65.0 8.6
1999 08 10 12 22.90 +20 27.9 1.178 0.838 44.1 57.4 9.1
1999 08 15 12 32.38 +23 07.2 1.305 0.882 42.4 50.8 9.5
1999 08 20 12 40.06 +25 17.1 1.425 0.933 40.8 45.1 10.0
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