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MPEC 2010-K06 : COMET C/2010 J4 (WISE)

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M.P.E.C. 2010-K06                                Issued 2010 May 16, 19:57 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.

             Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network

                              MPC@CFA.HARVARD.EDU
       URL http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/mpc.html  ISSN 1523-6714

                            COMET C/2010 J4 (WISE)

Observations:
    CK10J040  C2010 05 16.15552 11 15 00.15 +54 23 14.1                 EK006H06
    CK10J040  C2010 05 16.16179 11 14 54.44 +54 22 14.5                 EK006H06
    CK10J040  C2010 05 16.16807 11 14 48.72 +54 21 14.9          17.8 T EK006H06
    CK10J040  C2010 05 16.52418 11 09 45.50 +53 25 28.2                 EK006367
    CK10J040  C2010 05 16.53095 11 09 39.97 +53 24 25.6                 EK006367
    CK10J040  C2010 05 16.53772 11 09 34.40 +53 23 22.3                 EK006367
    CK10J040  C2010 05 16.54449 11 09 28.76 +53 22 19.3          18.2 T EK006367

Observer details:
367 Yatsuka.  Observer H. Abe.  0.26-m f/6.0 reflector + CCD.
H06 RAS Observatory, Mayhill.  Observer H. Sato.  0.25-m f/3.4 reflector + CCD.

Orbital elements:
    C/2010 J4 (WISE)
T 2010 May 3.169 TT                                     MPC
q   1.08551              (2000.0)            P               Q
                   Peri.   83.726       -0.574139       -0.791433
                   Node   316.381       -0.818364       +0.546769
e   1.0            Incl.  162.299       -0.025385       +0.273271
From 19 observations 2010 May 12-16.

Ephemeris:
    C/2010 J4 (WISE)
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase   m1    m2
2010 05 14    11 58.44   +60 27.6    0.417    1.100    91.0    66.7  18.0
2010 05 16    11 17.38   +54 48.1    0.469    1.106    88.8    66.1  18.3
2010 05 18    10 52.85   +49 51.5    0.528    1.113    86.6    65.1  18.6
2010 05 20    10 36.94   +45 44.3    0.592    1.120    84.3    64.0  18.9
2010 05 22    10 25.95   +42 20.3    0.658    1.129    82.1    62.6  19.1
2010 05 24    10 17.97   +39 31.0    0.726    1.138    79.9    61.1  19.4
2010 05 26    10 11.97   +37 09.2    0.796    1.148    77.8    59.6  19.6
2010 05 28    10 07.33   +35 09.1    0.866    1.160    75.7    57.9  19.8
2010 05 30    10 03.67   +33 26.2    0.937    1.171    73.7    56.2  20.0
2010 06 01    10 00.73   +31 57.1    1.007    1.184    71.7    54.4  20.2
2010 06 03    09 58.36   +30 39.1    1.078    1.197    69.7    52.6  20.4
2010 06 05    09 56.42   +29 30.2    1.148    1.211    67.8    50.9  20.6
2010 06 07    09 54.83   +28 28.9    1.218    1.225    65.9    49.1  20.8
2010 06 09    09 53.52   +27 33.8    1.287    1.241    63.9    47.3  21.0
2010 06 11    09 52.46   +26 44.0    1.355    1.256    62.1    45.6  21.2
2010 06 13    09 51.59   +25 58.7    1.423    1.273    60.2    43.8  21.3

Brian G. Marsden             (C) Copyright 2010 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2010-K06

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