boulton@well.UUCP (Dave Boulton) (11/09/86)
Does anybody have exact information on the newly discovered Comet Sorrells?
I would appreciate any position and magnitude data that is available. A guess
at the orbital elements would be great! A finder chart would be nice too, but
ASCII has certain limitations :-)
Thanks in advance.
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Dave Boulton "Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo"
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disclaim: repudiate, renounce, abjure, forswear, deny, gainsay, disavow,
retract, recant, disown, disherit, exheredate... *GOD* I love synonyms!weisberg@hpccc.HP.COM (Len Weisberg) (11/18/86)
The following was handed out at the 14 Nov 86 meeting of the Peninsula Astronomical Society, Bill Sorrells's club: Len Weisberg ... hplabs!hpccc!weisberg HP Corporate Computing Center -------- COMET ORBITAL PREDICTIONS BASED UPON ORBIT ELEMENTS by Rick Baldridge and Bob Shelton Comet Sorrells, 1986n Data source: Verbal report from Bill Sorrells, 11/05/1986 Perihelion passage - T = 03/09/1987 21.07 Hours Eccentricity - e 0.99000 Perihelion Distance in AU - q 1.71050 Node/Perihelion passage angle - w 70.6770 Deg. Longitude of ascending node - oo 74.0640 Deg. Inclination of orbit - i 160.6000 Deg. Absolute Magnitude 6.8 Reflective Constant 10.0 Run date/time Nov 5, 1986 01.20.24 Hours 1950 Coordinates: 0.0 Hours UT 1986-7 Right Declina- Delta Sun to Elonga- Magni- Date Ascentn tion E-to-C Comet tion tude Nov 1 5 40.1 + 26 51 1.581 2.364 132.1 +11.5 Nov 6 5 20.7 + 27 43 1.466 2.323 141.3 +11.3 Nov 11 4 57.1 + 28 27 1.365 2.283 151.1 +11.1 Nov 16 4 29.0 + 28 56 1.283 2.243 161.4 +10.8 Nov 21 3 57.3 + 28 58 1.224 2.204 170.1 +10.7 Nov 26 3 23.1 + 28 26 1.191 2.166 168.0 +10.5 Dec 1 2 48.6 + 27 18 1.184 2 129 157.4 +10.4 Dec 6 2 15.8 + 25 39 1.204 2.092 145.5 +10.4 Dec 11 1 46.5 + 23 42 1 248 2.057 133.9 +10.4 Dec 16 1 21.4 + 21 40 1.312 2.023 122.9 +10.5 Dec 21 1 0.3 + 19 42 1.392 1.991 112.7 +10.5 Dec 26 0 43.1 + 17 55 1.483 1.959 103.3 +10.6 Dec 31 0 29.1 + 16 22 1.582 1.929 94.6 +10.6 Jan 5 0 17.9 + 15 2 1.685 1.900 86.6 +10.7 Jan 10 0 9.0 + 13 56 1.789 1.874 79.2 +10.8 Jan 15 0 1.7 + 13 1 1.893 1.848 72.3 +10.9 Jan 20 23 55.9 + 12 15 1.994 1.825 65.7 +10.9 Jan 25 23 51.3 + 11 39 2.092 1.804 59.5 +11.0 Jan 30 23 47.5 + 11 10 2.185 1.784 53.5 +11.0 Feb 4 23 44.6 + 10 47 2.272 1.767 47.8 +11.1 Feb 9 23 42.2 + 10 30 2.351 1.752 42.3 +11.1 Feb 14 23 40.3 + 10 17 2.423 1.739 36.9 +11.1 Feb 19 23 38.8 + 10 9 2.487 1.728 31.8 +11.2 Feb 24 23 37.6 + 10 3 2.543 1.720 27.0 +11.2 Feb 29 23 36.5 + 10 1 2.589 1.714 22.4 +11.2 Mar 6 23 35.6 + 10 .8 2.626 1.711 18.2 +11.2 Mar 11 23 34.9 + 10 3 2.653 1.711 14.7 +11.2 Mar 16 23 34.2 + 10 7 2.670 1.712 12.4 +11.3 Mar 21 23 33.4 + 10 12 2.678 1.717 12.1 +11.3 Mar 26 23 32.7 + 10 19 2.676 1.723 13.7 +11.3