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    • MPEC 2007-K09 : COMET C/2007 D1 (LINEAR)

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    M.P.E.C. 2007-K09                                Issued 2007 May 18, 14:57 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://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html  ISSN 1523-6714

                           COMET C/2007 D1 (LINEAR)

Observations:
    CK07D010  C2007 05 11.44661 09 39 05.13 -01 26 18.5          19.5 N EK009415
    CK07D010  C2007 05 11.45297 09 39 05.19 -01 26 17.6          19.3 N EK009415
    CK07D010  C2007 05 12.43310 09 39 16.14 -01 23 26.0          19.4 N EK009415
    CK07D010  C2007 05 12.44436 09 39 16.34 -01 23 24.8          18.6 N EK009415
    CK07D010  C2007 05 16.16631 09 40 01.66 -01 12 58.2          17.8 T EK009673
    CK07D010  C2007 05 16.17130 09 40 01.71 -01 12 57.0                 EK009673
    CK07D010  C2007 05 16.17616 09 40 01.79 -01 12 56.3                 EK009673
    CK07D010  C2007 05 16.18056 09 40 01.85 -01 12 55.3                 EK009673

Observer details:
415 Kambah, near Canberra.  Observer D. Herald.  0.36-m f/3.9
    Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD.
673 Table Mountain Observatory, Wrightwood.  Observer J. Young.  0.61-m f/16
    Cassegrain + CCD.

Orbital elements:
    C/2007 D1 (LINEAR)
Epoch 2007 June 29.0 TT = JDT 2454280.5
T 2007 June 21.19785 TT                                 MPC
q   8.7924722            (2000.0)            P               Q
z  -0.0002323      Peri.  340.25000     -0.89067504     -0.44296553
 +/-0.0000137      Node   171.10281     +0.45212488     -0.83934736
e   1.0020424      Incl.   41.44430     -0.04776044     +0.31508339
From 192 observations 2007 Feb. 17-May 16, mean residual 0".64.

     The "original" and "future" barycentric values of 1/a are +0.000030
and +0.000724 (+/- 0.000014) AU^-1, respectively.

Brian G. Marsden             (C) Copyright 2007 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2007-K09

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