Well done for getting on to

Forums Comets Terry Lovejoy and TJL006 Well done for getting on to

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Nick James
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Well done for getting on to Terry’s latest so quickly. It looks like it is heading for perihelion sometime around April 23rd.

Orbital elements:  TJL006
   Perihelion 2017 Apr 23.983223 +/- 0.434 TT = 23:35:50 (JD 2457867.483223)
Epoch 2017 Mar 12.0 TT = JDT 2457824.5   Earth MOID: 0.0106   Find_Orb
M 359.08845 +/- 0.6
n   0.02120705 +/- 0.0207           Peri.   88.82430 +/- 1.1
a  12.9265452 +/- 8.4               Node   222.71050 +/- 0.34
e   0.9622537 +/- 0.0245            Incl.   87.87017 +/- 0.10
P  46.48                   H 14.7   G  0.15   U 10.1
q 0.48792827 +/- 0.00425    Q 25.3651622 +/- 71.1
From 88 observations 2017 Mar. 9-12; mean residual 0″.70