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Old 17-05-2008, 09:46 PM
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Update on Beshore

Hi All,

It seems that continued observations of this one has had a significant effect on the predicted orbit. It turns out that this little beast is _not_ on a parabolic orbit at all and is instead part of the Jupiter family of comets with a perihelion out past Mars and a period of 6.29 yrs.

Revised orbital elements are here:

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu:80/mpec/K08/K08J68.html

Rather than perihelion occurring in months to come, it has already happened -- back in late April.

Up-shot is, its basically nothing to get excited about -- unfortunately.

Best,


Les D
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