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    M.P.E.C. 2000-L09                                Issued 2000 June 3, 00:36 UT

     The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual
         minor planets and routine data on comets.  They are published
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                                  2000 EB173

Observations:
     K00EH3B  C2000 03 01.33875 13 21 12.39 -00 15 34.0                      303
     K00EH3B  C2000 03 03.33553 13 21 04.12 -00 14 09.3                      303
     K00EH3B  C2000 03 07.26643 13 20 46.87 -00 11 20.2                      303
     K00EH3B  C2000 03 08.28470 13 20 42.17 -00 10 35.6                      303
     K00EH3B* C2000 03 10.30898 13 20 32.68 -00 09 06.6                      303
     K00EH3B  C2000 03 11.28693 13 20 27.94 -00 08 23.4                      303
     K00EH3B  C2000 03 15.19482 13 20 08.49 -00 05 29.1                      303
     K00EH3B  C2000 03 15.36121 13 20 07.63 -00 05 21.8          20   V      303

Observer details:
303 Merida.  1.0-m Schmidt + CCD.  Observer I. Ferrin.  Measurers J. Snyder,
    P. Andrews, B. Schaefer, N. Ellman, B. Vincente, D. L. Rabinowitz.

Orbital elements:
2000 EB173
These assumed perihelic 2:3 Neptune-resonance orbital elements keep the
object more than 16 AU from Neptune over a 14 000-year period.
Epoch 2000 Feb. 26.0 TT = JDT 2451600.5                 Marsden
M 359.94744              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.00399929     Peri.   29.69098     -0.94434679     +0.32502506
a  39.3080143      Node   168.91859     -0.32895145     -0.93294202
e   0.2409261      Incl.   15.28658     -0.00028247     -0.15484799
P 246              H    5.2           G   0.15
From 8 observations 2000 Mar. 1-15.

Ephemeris:
2000 EB173               a,e,i = 39.31, 0.24, 15                 q = 29.838
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2000 05 26    13 13.76   +00 37.2   29.160   29.838   131.2     1.5    20.1
2000 06 05    13 13.23   +00 39.2   29.293   29.838   121.7     1.7    20.1
2000 06 15    13 12.88   +00 39.8   29.441   29.838   112.1     1.8    20.1
2000 06 25    13 12.71   +00 39.2   29.599   29.838   102.6     1.9    20.2
2000 07 05    13 12.74   +00 37.2   29.764   29.838    93.2     1.9    20.2
2000 07 15    13 12.97   +00 33.9   29.930   29.838    83.8     1.9    20.2
2000 07 25    13 13.40   +00 29.5   30.093   29.838    74.5     1.9    20.2
2000 08 04    13 14.03   +00 24.1   30.249   29.839    65.2     1.8    20.2
2000 08 14    13 14.83   +00 17.8   30.394   29.839    56.0     1.6    20.2
2000 08 24    13 15.80   +00 10.7   30.522   29.839    46.8     1.4    20.2
2000 09 03    13 16.91   +00 03.1   30.632   29.839    37.6     1.2    20.2

Brian G. Marsden             (C) Copyright 2000 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2000-L09

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