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    • MPEC 2005-D12 : COMET C/2004 X3 (LINEAR)

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    M.P.E.C. 2005-D12                                Issued 2005 Feb. 21, 00:14 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.

                  Supported in part by the Brinson Foundation
             Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network

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

                           COMET C/2004 X3 (LINEAR)

Observations:
    CK04X030  C2005 02 17.12624 11 07 09.86 -00 07 45.6          17.7 N ED012A61
    CK04X030  C2005 02 17.13283 11 07 09.45 -00 07 48.8          17.7 N ED012A61
    CK04X030  C2005 02 17.13986 11 07 08.97 -00 07 52.4          17.7 N ED012A61
    CK04X030  C2005 02 18.05886 11 06 05.35 -00 12 27.4          17.9 N ED012132
    CK04X030  C2005 02 18.07011 11 06 04.65 -00 12 29.9          18.2 N ED012132
    CK04X030  C2005 02 18.08167 11 06 03.90 -00 12 33.8          17.7 N ED012132

Observer details:
132 Bedoin.  Observer P. Antonini.  0.30-m f/3.3 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD.
A61 Tortona.  Observers F. Fratev, E. Mihaylova.  Measurer F. Fratev.  0.25-m
    f/4.7 reflector + CCD.

Orbital elements:
    C/2004 X3 (LINEAR)
Epoch 2005 May 30.0 TT = JDT 2453520.5
T 2005 June 17.21120 TT                                 MPC
q   4.4023425            (2000.0)            P               Q
z  -0.0014275      Peri.  202.12938     -0.90313811     +0.31836005
 +/-0.0000423      Node   343.04518     +0.34450972     +0.13692002
e   1.0062845      Incl.   81.06280     -0.25623155     -0.93802974
From 141 observations 2004 Dec. 15-2005 Feb. 18, mean residual 0".55.

     The "original" and "future" barycentric values of 1/a are +0.000006
and -0.000647 (+/- 0.000042) AU^-1, respectively.

Brian G. Marsden             (C) Copyright 2005 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2005-D12

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