29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (1989)

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Orbital Elements The following improved orbital elements, by Kenji Muraoka, are from 1434 observations 1902 to 1997, perturbations by 9 planets, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account. The mean residual is +/- 0.92 arc seconds. Epoch = 1989 Nov. 10.0 TT JDT = 2447840.5 T = 1989 Oct. 26.72188 +/- 0.00085 (m.e.) TT Peri. = 49.87012 +/- 0.00006 Node = 312.84785 +/- 0.00004 (2000.0) Incl. = 9.37217 +/- 0.00001 q = 5.7717713 +/- 0.0000002 AU e = 0.0446601 +/- 0.0000000 a = 6.0415890 +/- 0.0000001 AU n = 0.06637084 +/- 0.00000000 P = 14.850 +/- 0.0000002 years

Finding Charts 1995 Jan. 3 - 1997 Dec. 18

Magnitudes Graph m1 = 4.0 + 5 log d + 7.5 log r

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.