C/1998 K3 ( LINEAR )

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Updated on March 26, 1999

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* Profile

Discovery Date May 23, 1998
Magnitude 18.4 mag
Discoverer Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research project

* Orbital Elements

   The following improved orbital elements, by Kenji Muraoka are 
  from 171 observations  1998 May 23  to  July 26, perturbations 
  by 9 Planets, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account.
   The mean residual is +/- 0.64 arc seconds.

      Epoch  =  1998 Mar.  8.0  TT       JDT = 2450880.5
          T  =  1998 Mar.  7.16519       +/- 0.01261 (m.e.) TT
       Peri. =   47.82312                +/- 0.00301
       Node  =  307.94592                +/- 0.00250   (2000.0)
       Incl. =  160.20549                +/- 0.00111
          q  =    3.5462549              +/- 0.0000979 AU
          e  =    0.9974469              +/- 0.0005278
        1/a  =   +0.0007199              +/- 0.0001488 1/AU
        ( P  =  51768 years )

* Finding Charts

* Magnitudes Graph

        m1 = 10.0 + 5 log d + 10.0 log r

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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.

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