P/1998 QP54 ( LONEOS-Tucker )

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Updated on September 15, 1999

Profile Discovery Date August 27 and September 13, 1998 Magnitude 17.1 mag, 16.7 mag Discoverer Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search, Roy A. Tucker (Tucson, AZ) Pictures

Orbital Elements The following improved orbital elements by Kenji Muraoka, are from 212 observations 1998 Aug. 27 to 1999 Feb. 14, perturbations by 9 Planets, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account. The mean residual is +/- 0.81 arc seconds. Epoch = 1998 Sept. 24.0 TT JDT = 2451080.5 T = 1998 Oct. 6.40146 +/- 0.00160 (m.e.) TT Peri. = 30.10075 +/- 0.00154 Node = 341.92829 +/- 0.00168 (2000.0) Incl. = 17.74341 +/- 0.00015 q = 1.8818498 +/- 0.0000321 AU e = 0.5519217 +/- 0.0000048 a = 4.1998240 +/- 0.0000557 AU n = 0.11451370 +/- 0.00000228 P = 8.607 +/- 0.0001711 years (+/- 0.06 day)

Finding Charts

Magnitudes Graph m1 = 5.0 + 5 log d + 40.0 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.