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IAUC 5511: 1992 JD; N Cyg 1992

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                                                  Circular No. 5511
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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1992 JD
     J. V. Scotti, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, reports his
discovery of a very fast-moving asteroidal object with the Spacewatch
telescope, Kitt Peak.  The following measurements are by Scotti and
D. Rabinowitz:

     1992 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.        V
     May   3.18660   14 25 11.34   - 9 32 07.8
           3.19577   14 25 16.61   - 9 24 39.9   16.9
           3.20441   14 25 21.51   - 9 17 36.9
           3.21465   14 25 27.39   - 9 09 14.3
           3.22322   14 25 32.12   - 9 02 16.7
           3.23191   14 25 36.92   - 8 55 12.1
           3.26800   14 25 56.45   - 8 25 48.0
           3.28842   14 26 07.19   - 8 09 12.2
           3.34139   14 26 35.17   - 7 26 09.5
           3.35793   14 26 43.96   - 7 12 47.1
           3.42938   14 27 23.64   - 6 15 01.6
           4.28404   14 37 11.90   + 4 31 09.4
           4.31762   14 37 26.62   + 4 54 43.3   17.2
           4.33005   14 37 32.07   + 5 03 24.7
           4.43226   14 38 18.68   + 6 13 50.3
           4.44072   14 38 22.85   + 6 19 32.6
           4.44906   14 38 27.01   + 6 25 11.9

     Orbital elements by B. G. Marsden:

     T = 1992 Feb. 17.338 TT          Peri. = 285.691
     e = 0.03243                      Node  = 222.701   2000.0
     q = 1.00082 AU                   Incl. =  13.588
       a =  1.03436 AU     n = 0.936903     P =   1.05 years


NOVA CYGNI 1992
     Visual magnitude estimates (cf. IAUC 5501): Apr. 21.08 UT, 8.0
(E. Schweitzer, Strasbourg, France); 22.97, 8.2 (B. H. Granslo,
Fjellhamar, Norway); 25.06, 8.0 (A. Boattini, Florence, Italy);
27.39, 8.5 (P. Collins, Boulder, CO); May 1.25, 8.4 (G. W. Kronk, St.
Louis, MO); 3.96, 8.1 (P. Rapavy, Rimavska Sobota, Czechoslovakia).


1992 May 4                     (5511)            Daniel W. E. Green

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