122P/de Vico (1995)

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Updated on November 11, 2005

Profile Designation 122P/1995 S1 Rediscovery Date September 17, 1995 Magnitude 7.0 mag Rediscoverer Yuji Nakamura (Mie, Japan), Shougo Utsunomiya (Kumamoto, Japan),Masaaki Tanaka (Fukushima, Japan), D. E. Machholz (Colfax, CA), Tsutomu Seki (Kochi, Japan)

Orbital Elements The following improved orbital elements, by Kenji Muraoka, are from 211 observations 1995 Sept. 18 to 1996 June 25, perturbations by 9 Planets, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account. The mean residual is +/- 0.97 arc seconds. Epoch = 1995 Oct. 10.0 TT JDT = 2450000.5 T = 1995 Oct. 6.02381 +/- 0.00002 (m.e.) TT Peri. = 12.97682 +/- 0.00004 Node = 79.61807 +/- 0.00003 (2000.0) Incl. = 85.39119 +/- 0.00002 q = 0.6588922 +/- 0.0000001 AU e = 0.9627360 +/- 0.0000014 a = 17.6817347 +/- 0.0000364 AU n = 0.01325613 +/- 0.00000004 P = 74.351 +/- 0.0002297 years

Finding Charts 1995 May 3 - 1995 Oct. 20 1995 Sept.20 - 1996 May 7

Magnitudes Graph m1 = 8.5 + 5 log d + 18.0 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.