C/2004 R2 (ASAS)

Orbital Elements

The following orbital elements are taken from MPEC 2004-R48:

C/2004 R2 (ASAS)
T 2004 Oct. 7.931 TT                                    MPC
q   0.11376              (2000.0)            P               Q
                   Peri.    5.228       -0.993248       +0.109860
                   Node   182.395       -0.108282       -0.762686
e   1.0            Incl.   63.109       +0.041628       +0.637370
From 24 observations 2004 Sept. 1-9.

An explanation of the orbital elements is available.

These orbital elements are also available in forms suitable for loading into a number of popular planetarium-type software programs.

Ephemeris

The following ephemeris is at intervals of five days. A daily ephemeris covering the same time interval is also available.

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase   m1    m2
2004 09 02    06 38.81   -19 03.6    0.991    1.096    66.4    57.6  11.9
2004 09 07    07 19.19   -20 50.6    0.917    0.983    61.2    63.9  11.2
2004 09 12    08 06.60   -22 07.7    0.866    0.865    54.4    71.1  10.6
2004 09 17    08 59.71   -22 25.9    0.844    0.739    46.1    78.5   9.8
2004 09 22    09 55.33   -21 20.5    0.856    0.603    36.8    85.0   9.0
 
2004 10 22    15 44.09   +05 02.6    0.903    0.550    33.2    82.7   8.7
2004 10 27    16 39.62   +05 29.3    0.907    0.689    42.2    75.6   9.7
2004 11 01    17 29.97   +05 21.1    0.951    0.818    49.8    67.7  10.5
2004 11 06    18 13.41   +04 54.9    1.026    0.940    55.5    60.4  11.3
2004 11 11    18 49.88   +04 23.1    1.123    1.054    59.4    54.0  12.0
2004 11 16    19 20.24   +03 52.8    1.237    1.164    61.9    48.5  12.6
2004 11 21    19 45.65   +03 27.4    1.361    1.269    63.1    44.0  13.2
2004 11 26    20 07.17   +03 07.7    1.493    1.370    63.3    40.0  13.7