MPC B27 gives an orbit for the fragment. It should show up in the
next list.

John




-- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, John Farrell <jafarrell2001@y...>
wrote:

>
> Bill is right. There are not enough observations yet to compute

an orbit. It seems likely that this is Sekanina's Fragment B in
this paper:

> http://cfa-www.harvard/edu/icq/sek_icq_V27_225.pdf but it is

not certain. The current frragment is about 12 arcmin from the
predicted position. Sekanina's model returns the distance and
position angle relative to the main comet, not the orbital elements
so you will have to work with the predictions in the IAU Circular
for now.

>
> John
>
> tricks46 <Tricks46@a...> wrote:
> Thanks Bill. I didn't know how or even if a fragment would make

it.

> Don't remember seeing any other comets return in pieces. Mike ---

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> guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > The Minor Planet Center will probably determine a separate orbit
> for
> > this object; it's done that in the past with fragmented comets.

It

> > doesn't appear to have gotten around to doing that yet for this
> > fragment, probably because it's not been observed very much yet.
> Once
> > it does so, though, you should be able to use Extras... Add MPC
> > Comets/Asteroids, click on "Click to download updated comet

data",

> and
> > see the fragment.
> >
> > -- Bill
> >
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