136P/Mueller 3 (1999)

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Updated on October 9, 2016

Profile Designation 136P/1998 K4 Recovery Date May 24, 1998 Magnitude 20.6 mag Recoverer J. V. Scotti (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory)

Orbital Elements The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, are from 82 observations 1991 to 1999, perturbations by 9 Plantes, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account. The mean residual is +/- 0.80 arc seconds. Epoch = 1999 Mar. 3.0 TT JDT = 2451240.5 T = 1999 Mar. 20.34453 +/- 0.00604 (m.e.) TT Peri. = 225.41739 +/- 0.00129 Node = 137.96645 +/- 0.00017 (2000.0) Incl. = 9.41417 +/- 0.00003 q = 3.0106147 +/- 0.0000011 AU e = 0.2886851 +/- 0.0000003 a = 4.2324642 +/- 0.0000005 AU n = 0.11319158 +/- 0.00000002 P = 8.707 +/- 0.0000016 years

Finding Charts

Magnitudes Graph m1 = 0 + 5 log d + 33 log r(t - 130)

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.