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    • MPEC 2011-V26 : 2011 VU5

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    M.P.E.C. 2011-V26                                Issued 2011 Nov. 5, 17:41 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,
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                                   2011 VU5

Observations:
     K11V05U* C2011 11 03.44277 09 13 12.73 +31 14 01.2          18.8  cEV026704
     K11V05U  C2011 11 03.45543 09 13 26.22 +31 17 08.1          19.2  cEV026704
     K11V05U  C2011 11 03.46761 09 13 39.12 +31 20 05.9          18.9  cEV026704
     K11V05U  C2011 11 03.47997 09 13 52.21 +31 23 07.5          18.8  cEV026704
     K11V05U  C2011 11 03.49238 09 14 05.37 +31 26 08.7          18.9  cEV026704
     K11V05U KC2011 11 04.41809909 31 05.27 +34 59 17.9          18.7 RuEV026H36
     K11V05U KC2011 11 04.42208209 31 09.74 +35 00 10.1          19.0 RuEV026H36
     K11V05U KC2011 11 04.42597209 31 14.00 +35 01 02.3          19.1 RuEV026H36
     K11V05U  C2011 11 04.98461 09 41 38.98 +36 58 50.4          17.5 RuEV026B18
     K11V05U  C2011 11 04.98743 09 41 42.05 +36 59 24.8          17.5 RuEV026B18
     K11V05U  C2011 11 04.98954 09 41 44.41 +36 59 51.0          17.4 RuEV026B18
     K11V05U KC2011 11 05.40513809 49 31.08 +38 22 26.2          19.0 VtEV026H21
     K11V05U KC2011 11 05.40719509 49 33.36 +38 22 50.5          19.0 VtEV026H21
     K11V05U KC2011 11 05.41251509 49 39.23 +38 23 52.6          19.0 VtEV026H21
     K11V05U KC2011 11 05.41515609 49 42.16 +38 24 23.5          19.2 VtEV026H21
     K11V05U KC2011 11 05.41668 09 49 43.90 +38 24 46.7          18.1 RrEV026850
     K11V05U KC2011 11 05.42340 09 49 51.29 +38 26 05.7          18.3 RrEV026850
     K11V05U KC2011 11 05.43019 09 49 58.77 +38 27 24.5          19.0 RrEV026850
     K11V05U KC2011 11 05.43681 09 50 06.09 +38 28 41.6          18.8 RrEV026850

Observer details:
704 Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico.  Observers M. Blythe, G. Spitz,
    R. Brungard, J. Paige, P. Festler, T. McVey, A. Valdivia, C. Gall.  1.0-m
    f/2.15 reflector + CCD.
850 Cordell-Lorenz Observatory, Sewanee.  Observers D. T. Durig,
    H. T. Dziminski.  0.30-m f/2.6 Schmidt-Cassegrain + 765x510 CCD.
B18 Terskol.  Observers M. Andreev, A. Sergeev, N. Parakhin, V. Kozlov,
    N. Karpov.  Measurer M. Andreev.  0.6-m f/12.8 Cassegrain + CCD.
H21 Astronomical Research Observatory, Westfield.  Observer R. Holmes.
    Measurers T. Vorobjov, L. Buzzi, S. Foglia.  0.61-m f/4.0 astrograph + CCD.
H36 Sandlot Observatory, Scranton.  Observer G. Hug.  0.56-m reflector + CCD.

Orbital elements:
2011 VU5                                            PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0136 AU
Epoch 2011 Oct. 26.0 TT = JDT 2455860.5                 MPC
M 351.68945              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.32137002     Peri.   25.10462     +0.39585727     -0.84953014
a   2.1108910      Node    44.03670     +0.73493223     +0.06539983
e   0.5394888      Incl.   30.10914     +0.55061025     +0.52347054
P   3.07           H   20.3           G   0.15
From 19 observations 2011 Nov. 3-5.

Ephemeris:
2011 VU5                 a,e,i = 2.11, 0.54, 30                  q = 0.9721
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2011 10 06    05 09 01.3 -35 03 26   0.3112  1.1283   106.5    58.2    20.1
...
2011 10 21    06 24 12.0 -19 41 43   0.1645  1.0477   104.0    67.3    18.9
...
2011 10 29    07 46 09.0 +06 23 11   0.1140  1.0147    97.5    76.1    18.3
...
2011 11 04    09 23 18.2 +33 25 39   0.1160  0.9956    88.5    84.8    18.6
2011 11 05    09 41 51.4 +37 02 15   0.1201  0.9930    87.2    85.9    18.7
2011 11 06    10 00 37.6 +40 12 15   0.1252  0.9905    85.9    86.8    18.8
...
2011 11 12    11 45 40.9 +50 54 51   0.1688  0.9787    81.3    88.9    19.5
...
2011 11 20    13 18 39.2 +53 34 46   0.2426  0.9722    79.1    86.7    20.2
...
2011 12 05    14 36 44.1 +51 56 58   0.3851  0.9887    79.2    78.3    20.9

A. U. Tomatic                (C) Copyright 2011 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2011-V26

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