6 jan 03

Comet Juels-Holvorcem (C/2002 Y1)

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Sunday, June 22, 2003

Comet Juels-Holvorcem (C/2002 Y1)
This comet will remain 9th magnitude all month, visible in binoculars and small telescopes from a dark site

Discovery Date December 28, 2002
Magnitude 15.1 mag
Discoverer Charles W. Juels (Fountain Hills, AZ), Paulo R. Holvorcem (Campinas, Brazil)

Download the chart animation of comet (90kb .gif), june 22 onwards...(10 day projection)

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Orbital Elements

Epoch 2003 May 1.0 TT = JDT 2452760.5
T 2003 Apr. 13.25108 TT                                 MPC
q   0.7137253            (2000.0)            P               Q
z  +0.0041345      Peri.  128.82427     +0.65309590     +0.72107103
 +/-0.0000833      Node   166.21929     -0.27261865     -0.06114493
e   0.9970491      Incl.  103.78142     +0.70650182     -0.69015785
>From 394 observations 2002 Dec. 29-2003 Feb. 15, mean residual 0".59.

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