Re: bright near earth asteroid 1999 KW4

S.E.Guryanov Apr 25, 2001

Hi Michael and all GUIDE users!

This is another possible set for 1999 KW4 elements:
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1999 KW4
Orbital Elements
The following orbital elements are taken from MPO 3916

1999 KW4
Epoch 2001 Apr. 1.0 TT = JDT 2452000.5 Spahr
M 30.58513 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.91469720 Peri. 192.59490 +0.25956004 -0.78043802
a 0.6422971 Node 244.94466 +0.93154945 +0.35764429
e 0.6884078 Incl. 38.89504 +0.25464525 -0.51284213
P 0.51 H 16.5 G 0.15 U 3
From 509 observations at 2 oppositions, 1999-2000, mean residual 0".58.
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Greeting from Siberia !
Sergey Guryanov astron@...

> Here is advanced notice of 1999KW4 which will brighten to 10th magnitude as
> it passes by Earth on 25th May at a very close distance of 5 million kms.