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                                                  Circular No. 3735
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
Postal Address: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
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1982 TA
     Another fast-moving asteroidal object has been discovered by
Eleanor Helin and Eugene Shoemaker on exposures with the 1.2-m
Schmidt telescope at Palomar.  Precise positions are as follows:

    1982 UT         R.A. (1950.0)   Decl.       Mag.  Observer

    Oct. 11.12708   23 52 20.03   - 0 33 06.5          Helin
         11.15486   23 52 13.87   - 0 33 17.4            "
         11.16875   23 52 10.72   - 0 33 22.9            "
         12.13125   23 48 20.60   - 0 40 09.8   15.7     "
         12.17292   23 48 10.65   - 0 40 27.2            "
         12.30556   23 47 37.30   - 0 41 24.2            "
         12.32638   23 47 32.48   - 0 41 31.3            "
         13.11875   23 44 19.12   - 0 47 09.5            "
         13.13958   23 44 14.15   - 0 47 17.2            "
         13.27778   23 43 38.88   - 0 48 19.4   15.8   Skiff
         13.29722   23 43 33.86   - 0 48 27.0            "
         13.35000   23 43 20.18   - 0 48 49.4          Helin
         13.36389   23 43 17.26   - 0 48 53.6            "

E. Helin and E. Shoemaker (Palomar Mountain Observatory).  Measurers:
   Helin and S. Swanson.  The B magnitude was determined
   photoelectrically by S. J. Bus and R. S. Dunbar.
B. A. Skiff (Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa Station).  0.33-m
   photographic telescope.  Measurer: E. Bowell.

     Orbital elements by the undersigned:

          T = 1983 Jan. 2.688 ET
      Peri. = 121.111                    e =   0.75547
      Node  =  10.355   1950.0           a =   2.11269 AU
      Incl. =  12.685                    n =   0.320960
          q =   0.51661 AU               P =   3.07 years

     1982 ET    R.A. (1950.0) Decl.       p        r      Mag.

     Oct.  8     0 04.14    - 0 11.2    0.523    1.513    15.8
          13    23 44.80    - 0 46.1
          18    23 23.17    - 1 21.1    0.449    1.395    15.6
          23    22 59.82    - 1 53.2
          28    22 35.46    - 2 19.6    0.403    1.271    15.6
     Nov.  2    22 10.75    - 2 38.1
           7    21 46.19    - 2 47.8    0.379    1.143    15.6


1982 October 15                (3735)              Brian G. Marsden

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