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From: Rob Pike rob@pla...
Subject: No subject
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:20:47 -0500

data from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

    C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)
Epoch 1997 Mar. 13.0 TT = JDT 2450520.5
T 1997 Apr. 1.09192 TT                                  Nakano
q   0.9139592            (2000.0)            P               Q
z  +0.0053885      Peri.  130.59470     -0.13307599     -0.17036395
 +/-0.000043       Node   282.47161     +0.28240339     +0.93776083
e   0.9950751      Incl.   89.42447     +0.95002058     -0.30262311
 From 728 observations 1993 Apr. 27-1995 Dec. 8.  Ref. MPC 26374.

    C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)
Epoch 1996 Apr. 27.0 TT = JDT 2450200.5
T 1997 Mar. 31.81638 TT                                 Nakano
q   0.9169064            (2000.0)            P               Q
z  +0.0035730      Peri.  130.40448     -0.13192830     -0.17127816
 +/-0.000043       Node   282.47065     +0.27940881     +0.93859521
e   0.9967239      Incl.   89.38049     +0.95106553     -0.29950429

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    C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
T 1996 May 1.41087 TT                                   Marsden
q   0.2301957            (2000.0)            P               Q
                   Peri.  130.17807     +0.57751436     +0.80823672
                   Node   188.06079     +0.23067112     -0.02639685
e   1.0            Incl.  124.88607     +0.78311429     -0.58826576
 From 155 observations 1996 Jan. 1-Feb. 10.  Ref. MPEC 1996-C06.