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IAUC 5488: 1992 FE; 1992d

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                                                  Circular No. 5488
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
Postal Address: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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1992 FE
     R. H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory, provides the following
precise positions of a fast-moving asteroidal object, discovered by him
on a Mar. 26 exposure by M. J. Drinkwater with the U.K. Schmidt.  The
follow-up observations were obtained with the Uppsala southern Schmidt.

     1992 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.        V
     Mar. 26.45984    9 02 08.67   - 2 10 31.0   17
          26.50845    9 02 12.40   - 2 09 46.4
          29.48920    9 06 48.75   - 1 27 59.2
          31.50440    9 09 50.42   - 1 04 10.0
     Apr.  1.40919    9 11 12.32   - 0 54 30.2
           1.65279    9 11 31.79   - 0 52 00.6

     Orbital computations show the object to be of Aten type:

     T = 1991 Dec. 18.920 TT          Peri. =  82.103
     e = 0.40090                      Node  = 312.367   2000.0
     q = 0.55462 AU                   Incl. =   4.739
       a =  0.92575 AU     n = 1.106531     P =   0.89 year

1992 TT     R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r    Elong. Phase      V
Mar. 29     9 06.08    - 1 34.6    0.238    1.162  128.6   42.2     17.4
Apr.  3     9 13.55    - 0 39.2    0.277    1.183  125.8   43.3     17.7
      8     9 20.92    - 0 00.2    0.316    1.202  122.8   44.4     18.1
     13     9 28.33    + 0 26.1    0.356    1.220  119.9   45.4     18.4
     18     9 35.84    + 0 42.4    0.397    1.236  117.0   46.4     18.7
     23     9 43.48    + 0 50.5    0.438    1.250  114.1   47.3     19.0
     28     9 51.29    + 0 51.6    0.479    1.262  111.2   48.1     19.2


COMET TANAKA-MACHHOLZ (1992d)
     S. Nakano, Sumoto, Japan, communicates the following precise
measurements by T. Seki, Geisei.  The Mar. 24 measurement is from the
photograph taken by Z. Tanaka at Yodoe, Tottori (cf. IAUC 5487).

     1992 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.        m1
     Mar. 24.84234   21 54 50.0    +12 57 34      10
     Apr.  1.82409   22 12 18.76   +19 49 07.3     9


1992 April 2                   (5488)              Brian G. Marsden

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