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                                                  Circular No. 6059
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
Postal Address: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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PERIODIC COMET MACHHOLZ 2 (1994o)
     Additional observations have shown that this comet is of short
period, meaning that comet 1986 VIII = 1991 XII now becomes
P/Machholz 1.  The following orbital elements are from MPEC 1994-Q06:

     T = 1994 Sept.17.821 TT          Peri. = 147.547
     e = 0.79054                      Node  = 247.484   2000.0
     q = 0.75272 AU                   Incl. =  13.266
       a =  3.59366 AU     n = 0.144677     P =   6.81 years

1994 TT     R. A. (2000) Decl.   Delta     r    Elong. Phase    m1
Aug. 26     7 03.48   +49 41.7   0.417   0.851   56.0  100.0    9.9
     28     7 17.83   +47 14.0   0.434   0.836   54.4  100.6    9.9
     30     7 30.32   +44 49.9   0.453   0.821   53.0  100.8    9.9
Sept. 1     7 41.36   +42 30.6   0.473   0.808   51.9  100.7    9.9
      3     7 51.24   +40 16.5   0.494   0.796   51.0  100.3   10.0
      5     8 00.21   +38 07.7   0.515   0.786   50.2   99.6   10.0
      7     8 08.46   +36 04.3   0.537   0.776   49.6   98.6   10.1
      9     8 16.14   +34 06.0   0.560   0.769   49.2   97.4   10.1
     11     8 23.35   +32 12.6   0.583   0.762   48.9   96.0   10.1
     13     8 30.18   +30 23.9   0.607   0.758   48.6   94.4   10.2
     15     8 36.72   +28 39.6   0.631   0.754   48.5   92.7   10.3
     17     8 43.01   +26 59.4   0.655   0.753   48.5   90.8   10.3
     19     8 49.09   +25 23.1   0.680   0.753   48.5   88.9   10.4
     21     8 55.00   +23 50.3   0.704   0.755   48.6   86.9   10.5
     23     9 00.77   +22 21.0   0.729   0.758   48.8   84.8   10.6
     25     9 06.40   +20 54.8   0.754   0.763   49.0   82.8   10.7


SATURN
     We have learned from observers at Pic du Midi on Aug. 14 (J. M.
Gomez, J. Caquel, P. Laques) and at the U.S. Naval Observatory's
Black Birch station on Aug. 20 (T. E. Love, I. Jordan) of what is
apparently a single low-contrast white spot, perhaps 12 deg long,
near the south limb of Saturn.  The Pic du Midi observers report
longitude = 305 deg, latitude = -65 deg (system III), while the New
Zealand observers report a central-meridian transit at about Aug.
20.58 UT (corresponding to longitude 277 deg).


1994 August 23                 (6059)            Daniel W. E. Green

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