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    • MPEC 2005-D11 : COMET C/2004 L1 (LINEAR)

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    M.P.E.C. 2005-D11                                Issued 2005 Feb. 21, 00:09 UT

     The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual
         minor planets and routine data on comets.  They are published
   on behalf of Commission 20 of the International Astronomical Union by the
          Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
                          Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.

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                              MPC@CFA.HARVARD.EDU
          URL http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html  ISSN 1523-6714

                           COMET C/2004 L1 (LINEAR)

Observations:
    CK04L010  C2005 02 10.78936 15 13 12.55 -33 26 40.4                 ED011349
    CK04L010  C2005 02 10.79545 15 13 11.84 -33 26 45.0                 ED011349
    CK04L010  C2005 02 10.82774 15 13 08.08 -33 27 10.6                 ED011349
    CK04L010  C2005 02 10.83383 15 13 07.36 -33 27 15.6          15.3 T ED011349
    CK04L010  C2005 02 11.83385 15 11 09.68 -33 40 34.1                 ED011349
    CK04L010  C2005 02 11.83691 15 11 09.34 -33 40 36.4                 ED011349
    CK04L010  C2005 02 11.83995 15 11 08.99 -33 40 39.3          15.2 T ED011349
    CK04L010  C2005 02 15.20344 15 03 45.20 -34 26 11.4          16.4 N ED011A61
    CK04L010  C2005 02 15.20586 15 03 44.87 -34 26 14.6          16.4 N ED011A61
    CK04L010  C2005 02 15.20944 15 03 44.50 -34 26 18.7          16.4 N ED011A61
    CK04L010  C2005 02 18.33774 14 55 36.76 -35 09 14.1          16.4 N ED011844
    CK04L010  C2005 02 18.34573 14 55 35.39 -35 09 20.2          15.9 N ED011844
    CK04L010  C2005 02 18.35348 14 55 34.14 -35 09 26.4          16.1 N ED011844

Observer details:
349 Ageo.  Observer K. Kadota.  0.25-m f/5.0 reflector + CCD.
844 Los Molinos.  Observer S. Roland.  0.46-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD.
A61 Tortona.  Observers F. Fratev, E. Mihaylova.  Measurer F. Fratev.  0.25-m
    f/4.7 reflector + CCD.

Orbital elements:
    C/2004 L1 (LINEAR)
Epoch 2005 Mar. 11.0 TT = JDT 2453440.5
T 2005 Mar. 30.09700 TT                                 MPC
q   2.0473934            (2000.0)            P               Q
z  +0.0011212      Peri.  243.57800     -0.94639982     -0.01920929
 +/-0.0000023      Node    66.17620     +0.06266610     +0.96834239
e   0.9977045      Incl.  159.36227     -0.31686014     +0.24888556
From 161 observations 2004 June 12-2005 Feb. 18, mean residual 0".63.

     The "original" and "future" barycentric values of 1/a are +0.001384
and +0.001357 (+/- 0.000002) AU^-1, respectively.

Brian G. Marsden             (C) Copyright 2005 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2005-D11

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