71P/Clark (1995)

Japanese version Home page

Updated on April 11, 1998

Profile

Orbital Elements The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, are from 182 observations 1989 to 1997, including 9 Planets, Moon and 5 minor planets perturbations and non-gravitational effect of style II. The mean residual is +/- 0.81 arc seconds. Epoch = 1995 June 12.0 TT JDT = 2449880.5 T = 1995 May 31.09704 +/- 0.00650 (m.e.) TT Peri. = 208.84913 +/- 0.00155 Node = 59.72323 +/- 0.00009 (2000.0) Incl. = 9.50496 +/- 0.00002 q = 1.5525802 +/- 0.0000028 AU e = 0.5019746 +/- 0.0000024 a = 3.1174719 +/- 0.0000052 AU n = 0.17906069 +/- 0.00000045 P = 5.504 +/- 0.0000137 years A1 = +0.995 +/- 0.116 A2 = -0.54333 +/- 0.01013

Finding Charts 1994 Nov. 4 - 1995 Sept.20 1995 Sept.20 - 1996 Mar. 18

Magnitudes Graph m1 = 8.0 + 5 log d + 22.0 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.