104P/Kowal 2 (1998)

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Updated on June 7, 1998

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* Profile

* Orbital Elements

   The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, 
  are from 422 observations 1991 to 1998, including 9 Planets, 
  Moon and 5 minor planets perturbations and non-gravitational 
  effect of style II.  The mean residual is +/- 0.89 arc seconds.

      Epoch  =  1998 Mar.  8.0  TT       JDT = 2450880.5
          T  =  1998 Mar.  2.15401       +/- 0.00141 (m.e.) TT
       Peri. =  191.89338                +/- 0.00107
       Node  =  246.14703                +/- 0.00008   (2000.0)
       Incl. =   15.48916                +/- 0.00001
          q  =    1.3966251              +/- 0.0000040 AU
          e  =    0.5852289              +/- 0.0000082
          a  =    3.3672193              +/- 0.0000200 AU
          n  =    0.15951333             +/- 0.00000142
          P  =    6.179                  +/- 0.0000551  years
         A1  =   +4.220                  +/- 0.256
         A2  =   -0.10338                +/- 0.09889

* Finding Charts

* 1997 Mar. 3 - 1998 Apr. 27
* 1998 Apr. 27 - 1999 June 21

* Magnitudes Graph

        m1 = 10.3 + 5 log d + 12.5 log r

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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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