C/1996 E1 ( NEAT )

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Updated on May 20, 1997

Profile Discovery Date March 15, 1996 Magnitude 16.2 mag Discoverer Near-Earth-Asteroid Tracking Team (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Orbital Elements The following improved orbital elements, by Kenji Muraoka, are from 230 observations 1996 Mar. 15 to Oct. 12, including 9 Planets, Moon and 5 minor planets perturbations and non-gravitational effect of style II. The mean residual is +/- 0.69 arc seconds. Epoch = 1996 July 16.0 TT JDT = 2450280.5 T = 1996 July 27.34480 +/- 0.00027 (m.e.) TT Peri. = 81.10741 +/- 0.00041 Node = 149.84256 +/- 0.00004 (2000.0) Incl. = 114.47558 +/- 0.00003 q = 1.3588906 +/- 0.0000079 AU e = 1.0006986 +/- 0.0000081 1/a = -0.0005141 +/- 0.0000060 1/AU A1 = +7.01 +/- 0.39 A2 = +0.5787 +/- 0.1266

Finding Charts 1996 Jan. 8 - 1996 Sept.14 1996 Aug. 15 - 1996 Dec. 23

Magnitudes Graph m1 = 7.4 + 5 log d + 23.0 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.