68P/Klemola (1998)

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Updated on June 11, 2005

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Orbital Elements The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, are from 161 observations 1965 to 1998, perturbations by 9 Plantes, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account. The mean residual is +/- 0.99 arc seconds. Epoch = 1998 Apr. 17.0 TT JDT = 2450920.5 T = 1998 May 1.66765 +/- 0.00014 (m.e.) TT Peri. = 154.54357 +/- 0.00008 Node = 175.54315 +/- 0.00008 (2000.0) Incl. = 11.08868 +/- 0.00004 q = 1.7545181 +/- 0.0000007 AU e = 0.6413176 +/- 0.0000001 a = 4.8915651 +/- 0.0000006 AU n = 0.09110293 +/- 0.00000002 P = 10.819 +/- 0.0000019 years

Finding Charts

Magnitudes Graph m1 = 7.7 + 5 log d + 20.5 log r(t + 60)

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.