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                                                  Circular No. 6015
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
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COMET NAKAMURA-NISHIMURA-MACHHOLZ (1994m)
     The following precise positions have been reported:

     1994 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.        m1    Observer
     July  6.52257    3 55 13.01   +70 12 09.6          Sugie
           6.77292    3 54 36.69   +70 11 51.2          Seki
           6.78281    3 54 35.21   +70 11 50.4            "
           7.75833    3 52 08.23   +70 10 22.1   11.6   Nakamura
           7.76389    3 52 07.38   +70 10 21.6            "
           7.77760    3 52 05.08   +70 10 20.3   10.5   Seki
           8.89580    3 49 09.94   +70 08 30.2   12.2   Ticha
           8.90235    3 49 08.96   +70 08 29.6            "

A. Sugie (Dynic Astronomical Observatory).  0.25-m f/3.4 Schmidt.
T. Seki (Geisei).  0.60-m f/3.5 reflector.
A. Nakamura (Kuma Kogen).  0.60-m f/6.0 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD.
J. Ticha, M. Tichy and Z. Moravec (Klet).  0.57-m f/5 reflector + CCD.

     Parabolic orbital elements from 11 observations July 6-8:

     T = 1994 July 10.627 TT          Peri. = 119.368
                                      Node  = 161.397   2000.0
     q = 1.18077 AU                   Incl. =  94.963

1994 TT     R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r    Elong. Phase      m1
July  7     3 54.0     +70 11.5    1.422    1.182   55.0   44.8      9.5
     12     3 40.5     +70 03.1    1.345    1.181   58.0   46.9      9.4
     17     3 24.40    +69 51.3    1.261    1.185   61.6   49.0      9.2
     22     3 05.11    +69 32.4    1.172    1.194   65.7   50.8      9.1
     27     2 41.91    +69 00.7    1.077    1.209   70.5   52.4      9.0
Aug.  1     2 14.16    +68 06.7    0.979    1.228   76.0   53.3      8.8
      6     1 41.55    +66 34.7    0.880    1.252   82.4   53.4      8.7
     11     1 04.66    +64 00.1    0.780    1.280   90.0   52.4      8.5
     16     0 25.31    +59 47.1    0.685    1.311   99.3   49.6      8.4
     21    23 46.32    +53 09.9    0.600    1.347  110.7   44.6      8.2
     26    23 10.49    +43 24.5    0.532    1.385  124.8   36.8      8.0

     Visual magnitude estimates: July 7.29 UT, 9.4 (C. Spratt,
Victoria, BC, 0.20-m reflector); 7.93, 9.6 (T. Vanmunster, Landen,
Belgium, 0.35-m reflector); 8.00, 9.1 (J. D. Shanklin, Cambridge,
England, 0.20-m refractor).


1994 July 8                    (6015)              Brian G. Marsden

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