116P/Wild 4 (1996)

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Updated on August 17, 2006

Profile Designation 116P/1994 V1 Recovery Date November 9, 1994 Magnitude 20.7 mag Recoverer J. V. Scotti (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory)

Orbital Elements The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, are from 530 observations 1990 Jan. 21 to 1998 Nov. 22, including 9 Planets, Moon and 5 minor planets perturbations and non-gravitational effect of style II. The mean residual is +/- 0.80 arc seconds. Epoch = 1996 Aug. 25.0 TT JDT = 2450320.5 T = 1996 Aug. 31.23143 +/- 0.00091 (m.e.) TT Peri. = 170.74802 +/- 0.00046 Node = 22.06580 +/- 0.00034 (2000.0) Incl. = 3.71953 +/- 0.00001 q = 1.9890659 +/- 0.0000016 AU e = 0.4078044 +/- 0.0000020 a = 3.3587991 +/- 0.0000034 AU n = 0.16011353 +/- 0.00000025 P = 6.156 +/- 0.0000095 years A1 = +0.291 +/- 0.095 A2 = +0.99812 +/- 0.03384

Finding Charts 1995 Jan. 3 - 1996 Aug. 25 1996 July 26 - 1997 Dec. 18

Magnitudes Graph m1 = 1.6 + 5 log d + 25 log r(t - 23)

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.