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                                                  Circular No. 5986
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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COMET TAKAMIZAWA (1994i)
     S. Nakano, Sumoto, Japan, reports the discovery by Kesao
Takamizawa of a comet on T-Max photographs.  Precise positions:

     1994 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.        m1    Observer
     May   6.68611   17 07 23.72   - 4 35 07.7   11.0   Takamizawa
           7.73794   17 01 44.33   - 4 49 16.8            "
           8.47065   16 57 40.10   - 4 59 26.1          Rabinowitz
           8.63984   16 56 43.26   - 5 01 51.3          Kojima
           8.65391   16 56 38.48   - 5 02 03.1            "
           8.87212   16 55 24.51   - 5 05 08.6   12.5   Ticha
           8.87394   16 55 23.90   - 5 05 10.2            "

K. Takamizawa (Saku).  0.10-m f/4.0 patrol camera.  Comet has
  strong central condensation; coma diameter about 1'.  Measurer
  Y. Kushida.
D. Rabinowitz (Kitt Peak).  Spacewatch telescope.  2'-3' coma; tail
  about 0o.2 long toward the east-northeast.
T. Kojima (YGCO Chiyoda Observatory).  0.25-m f/6.0 reflector + CCD.
  Coma diameter 3'; tail 10' long in p.a. 45o.
J. Ticha, Z. Moravec, and M. Tichy (Klet Obs.).  0.57-m reflector +
  CCD.

     Preliminary parabolic orbital elements from the above
observations:

     T = 1994 July  8.644 TT          Peri. = 197.776
                                      Node  =  51.237   2000.0
     q = 1.88618 AU                   Incl. = 135.572

1994 TT     R. A. (2000) Decl.   Delta     r    Elong. Phase    m1
May   8    17 00.30   - 4 52.8   1.109   2.036  148.0   15.2    9.8
     10    16 48.86   - 5 21.3   1.078   2.027  152.3   13.4    9.7
     12    16 36.68   - 5 51.1   1.051   2.018  156.6   11.5    9.7
     14    16 23.80   - 6 22.1   1.028   2.010  160.8    9.5    9.6
     16    16 10.29   - 6 53.9   1.009   2.001  164.5    7.8    9.5
     18    15 56.26   - 7 26.0   0.994   1.993  167.2    6.4    9.5
     20    15 41.83   - 7 57.9   0.984   1.985  168.0    6.1    9.4
     22    15 27.15   - 8 29.1   0.979   1.978  166.5    6.9    9.4
     24    15 12.38   - 8 59.1   0.979   1.970  163.2    8.6    9.4
     26    14 57.69   - 9 27.5   0.984   1.963  159.0   10.7    9.4
     28    14 43.24   - 9 53.9   0.993   1.957  154.4   13.0    9.4


1994 May 8                     (5986)            Daniel W. E. Green

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