22P/Kopff (1996)

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Updated on December 31, 2013

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* Profile

* Pictures

* Orbital Elements

   The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, 
  are from 539 observations 1982 to 1997, including 9 Planets, 
  Moon and 5 minor planets perturbations and non-gravitational 
  effect of style II.  The mean residual is +/- 0.93 arc seconds.

      Epoch  =  1996 July 16.0  TT       JDT = 2450280.5
          T  =  1996 July  2.19151       +/- 0.00034 (m.e.) TT
       Peri. =  162.83733                +/- 0.00021
       Node  =  120.90697                +/- 0.00009   (2000.0)
       Incl. =    4.72102                +/- 0.00001
          q  =    1.5795751              +/- 0.0000006 AU
          e  =    0.5440721              +/- 0.0000003
          a  =    3.4645283              +/- 0.0000007 AU
          n  =    0.15284031             +/- 0.00000005
          P  =    6.449                  +/- 0.0000021  years
         A1  =   -0.161                  +/- 0.016
         A2  =   -0.09090                +/- 0.00088

* Finding Charts

* 1995 May 3 - 1996 Sept.24
* 1996 Apr. 27 - 1997 Aug. 20

* Magnitudes Graph

        m1 = 5.3 + 5 log d + 21.0 log r  [   ,450]  (             - 1997 Sept.25)
        m1 = 2.5 + 5 log d + 20.0 log r  [450,   ]  (1997 Sept.25 -             )

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The orbital elements are calculated by Kenji Muraoka.
The charts are made with StellaNavigator Ver.2.0 for Windows (AstroArts / ASCII).
The magnitudes graphs are made with Comet for Windows.

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