I/204     Orbital Elements of Minor Planets June 1, 1993  (St. Petersburg, 1993)

CATALOGUE OF ORBITAL ELEMENTS AND PHOTOMETRIC PARAMETERS OF 5566 MINOR PLANETS NUMBERED by June 1, 1993 Batrakov Yu.V., Shor V.A. <Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia>
ADC_Keywords: Minor planets Description: Copyright of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, St. Petersburg 1 October 1993. All rights reserved Historical Notes: Version 15-Dec-1993 **** NOTE that there was an error in minor planet #418 Version 29-Jan-1994: rough error in the mean motion of minor planet (418) Alemannia was found by V.Shor and corrected. Version 04-Feb-1994: modification in minor planet (719) Albert which was observed only in the year of its discovery 1911, and is the only planet which is considered now to be lost. (communicated by V. Shor) File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file main 187 5566 The Catalogue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-per-byte Description of file: main -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 6 I6 --- N Minor Planet number 8- 11 I4 a Equinox equinox = 2000 (2000.0) 12- 15 I4 a EpY epoch (year) 16- 17 I2 month EpM epoch (month number) 18- 19 I2 d EpD epoch (day number) In most cases epoch is written as 19920627 (month and day may contain leading zero); it is supposed that epoch is given for 0 E.T. even for dates before 1925 20- 29 F10.6 deg M mean anomaly 30- 39 F10.6 deg omega argument of perihelion 40- 49 F10.6 deg Node node 50- 59 F10.6 deg i inclination to the ecliptic 60- 69 F10.8 --- e eccentricity 70- 81 F12.10 deg dmotion mean daily motion 82- 87 F6.2 mag H absolute magnitude, H 89- 93 F5.2 --- G []? slope parameter, G 95-103 9I1 --- Pert nine-figure code consisting of zeros and ones; one in i-th position of the code means that perturbations from the i-th major planet (counting from Mercury to Pluto) has been taken into consideration when determining the elements. 104-112 9I1 --- Pert2 further indications of perturbing bodies: Ceres, Pallas, Vesta (the remaining six bytes 107-112 are zero) 113-116 I4 --- Nopp number of oppositions used for improvement 117-120 I4 --- Nobs number of observations used for improvement 121-124 I4 a Y1 the first year of the time interval covered by the observations used for improvement 125-128 I4 a Y2 the last year of the time interval covered by the observations used for improvement 129-133 F5.1 --- rms mean-root-square residual or maximum residual of observations with respect to the set of elements fitted by least squares. In the last case 50 is added to the absolute value of the residual 134-139 A6 --- code code for the source of elements consisting of one or two letters and four or five digits; the letters MP and four digits or M and five digits stand for the Minor Planet Circular and the page; the letters EP and four digits stand for the Ephemerides of Minor Planets and the year. 140-155 A16 --- Name name or preliminary designation of the planet 164-181 A18 --- Author author of the elements 182-187 A6 "YYMMDD" Date six-figure code of the date when the elements have been written on tape at ITA (two last figures of the year, month, day) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: I/217 : Orbital Elements of Minor Planets 1996 (Batrakov+ 1995) http://www.lowell.edu/users/elgb/Welcome.html : the Asteroid Orbital Elements Database, maintained by Ted Bowell, Lowell Observatory
(End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 04-Feb-1994
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