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    M.P.E.C. 2019-Q99                                Issued 2019 August 28, 12:43 UT  

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

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                                2019 QR3                                 


Observations:
     K19Q03R* C2019 08 27.27806 23 10 55.07 +28 07 09.1          20.3 GVEQ099G96
     K19Q03R  C2019 08 27.28327 23 11 06.23 +28 08 11.5          20.8 GVEQ099G96
     K19Q03R  C2019 08 27.28845 23 11 17.43 +28 09 14.9          20.6 GVEQ099G96
     K19Q03R  C2019 08 27.29363 23 11 28.58 +28 10 16.7          20.9 GVEQ099G96
     K19Q03R  C2019 08 27.40390 23 15 33.65 +28 32 13.5          20.4 GVEQ099I52
     K19Q03R  C2019 08 27.40779 23 15 42.49 +28 32 58.6          20.5 GVEQ099I52
     K19Q03R  C2019 08 27.40974 23 15 46.80 +28 33 21.1                VEQ099I52
     K19Q03R KC2019 08 28.01658223 45 00.243+30 42 21.12         20.0 GVEQ099J04
     K19Q03R KC2019 08 28.01995823 45 10.970+30 43 07.44         20.4 GVEQ099J04
     K19Q03R KC2019 08 28.19672523 55 30.01 +31 20 16.9          20.5 VuEQ099H21
     K19Q03R KC2019 08 28.20010623 55 42.03 +31 21 03.7          20.3 VuEQ099H21
     K19Q03R KC2019 08 28.20348623 55 54.06 +31 21 50.9          20.6 VuEQ099H21
     K19Q03R KC2019 08 28.20686423 56 06.03 +31 22 37.5          20.0 VuEQ099H21
     K19Q03R KC2019 08 28.21024223 56 18.06 +31 23 23.7          20.3 VuEQ099H21

Observer details:
G96 Mt. Lemmon Survey.  Observer D. C. Fuls.  Measurers B. M. Africano, E. J. 
   Christensen, G. A. Farneth, D. C. Fuls, A. R. Gibbs, A. D. Grauer, H. 
   Groeller, R. A. Kowalski, S. M. Larson, G. J. Leonard, T. A. Pruyne, D. 
   Rankin, R. L. Seaman, F. C. Shelly.  1.5-m reflector + 10K CCD.
H21 Astronomical Research Observatory, Westfield.  Observer R. Holmes.  
    Measurers S. Foglia, L. Buzzi, T. Linder, R. Holmes.  0.76-m f/3.0 
   astrograph + CCD.
I52 Steward Observatory, Mt. Lemmon Station.  Observer H. Groeller.  Measurers 
   B. M. Africano, E. J. Christensen, G. A. Farneth, D. C. Fuls, A. R. Gibbs, 
   A. D. Grauer, H. Groeller, R. A. Kowalski, S. M. Larson, G. J. Leonard, T. 
   A. Pruyne, D. Rankin, R. L. Seaman, F. C. Shelly.  1.0-m reflector + CCD.
J04 ESA Optical Ground Station, Tenerife.  Observer D. Abreu.  Measurers M. 
   Micheli, D. Koschny, M. Busch, A. Knofel, E. Schwab.  1.0-m f/4.4 
   reflector + CCD.

Orbital elements:
2019 QR3                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0017 AU
Epoch 2019 Apr. 27.0 TT = JDT 2458600.5                 Veres
M 273.56305              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.51231466     Peri.  235.34748     +0.82770543     -0.55812788
a   1.5468381      Node   158.39686     +0.55260192     +0.79259720
e   0.4345373      Incl.    9.10848     +0.09764648     +0.24552586
P   1.92           H   27.2           G   0.15           U   7
Residuals in seconds of arc
190827 G96  0.8+  0.3+    190827 I52  0.1+  0.1+    190828 H21  0.3-  0.4-
190827 G96  0.2-  0.4-    190827 I52 (2.1-  0.4-)   190828 H21  0.4+  0.2+
190827 G96  0.0   0.4+    190828 J04  0.0   0.3+    190828 H21  0.3+  0.3+
190827 G96  0.7-  0.5-    190828 J04  0.1-  0.2+    190828 H21  0.7+  0.0
190827 I52 (1.1+  0.7+)   190828 H21  1.1-  0.5-

Ephemeris:
2019 QR3                 a,e,i = 1.55, 0.43, 9                   q = 0.8747
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r    Elong.  Phase     V
2019 07 29    21 09 38.6 +10 21 14   0.2263  1.2154   149.2    25.3    25.6
...
2019 08 13    21 20 30.3 +14 05 55   0.1170  1.1170   150.9    26.1    24.0
...
2019 08 21    21 41 42.3 +17 52 12   0.06341 1.0669   149.5    28.8    22.6
...
2019 08 27    23 00 51.4 +27 14 51   0.02630 1.0312   141.2    37.9    20.9
2019 08 28    23 43 48.0 +30 38 40   0.02114 1.0254   135.1    44.1    20.6
2019 08 29    00 55 43.8 +33 59 05   0.01700 1.0197   124.0    55.2    20.4
...
2019 09 04    07 30 58.9 +02 58 07   0.03402 0.9870    49.6   128.9    25.4
...
2019 09 12    08 24 17.5 -05 41 24   0.08492 0.9481    44.6   131.8    27.6
...
2019 09 27    08 53 05.1 -08 05 07   0.1860  0.8945    50.0   120.8    28.2

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