129P/Shoemaker-Levy 3 (1998)

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Updated on May 17, 1999

Profile Designation 129P/1996 U1 Recovery Date October 17, 1996 Magnitude 19.3 mag Recoverer G. Hahn, A. Maury, M. Lundstrom (Caussols)

Orbital Elements The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, are from 225 observations 1991 Feb. 7 to 1999 Feb. 12, perturbations by 9 Plantes, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account. The mean residual is +/- 0.54 arc seconds. Epoch = 1998 Mar. 8.0 TT JDT = 2450880.5 T = 1998 Mar. 4.88686 +/- 0.00046 (m.e.) TT Peri. = 181.38019 +/- 0.00013 Node = 303.71158 +/- 0.00009 (2000.0) Incl. = 5.00844 +/- 0.00002 q = 2.8173477 +/- 0.0000013 AU e = 0.2479061 +/- 0.0000003 a = 3.7460054 +/- 0.0000006 AU n = 0.13594132 +/- 0.00000003 P = 7.250 +/- 0.0000018 years

Finding Charts

Magnitudes Graph m1 = 5.7 + 5 log d + 20.0 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.