74P/Smirnova-Chernykh (1992)

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Updated on December 6, 1996

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Orbital Elements The following improved orbital elements, by Kenji Muraoka, are from 184 observations 1978 July 11 to 1996 July 24, perturbations by 9 Planets, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account. The mean residual is +/- 0.90 arc seconds. Epoch = 1992 Aug. 6.0 TT JDT = 2448840.5 T = 1992 Aug. 5.92580 +/- 0.00089 (m.e.) TT Peri. = 88.99539 +/- 0.00023 Node = 77.48067 +/- 0.00022 (2000.0) Incl. = 6.62918 +/- 0.00002 q = 3.5721337 +/- 0.0000009 AU e = 0.1473146 +/- 0.0000002 a = 4.1892751 +/- 0.0000004 AU n = 0.11494650 +/- 0.00000002 P = 8.574 +/- 0.0000012 years

Finding Charts 1994 Jan. 8 - 1998 Nov. 3

Magnitudes Graph m1 = 8.5 + 5 log d + 10.0 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.