Hi All,
Has been a new set of orbital elements published for this comet that has caused yet another sigificant bounce in the perihelion date and the orbital inclination. Probably several more weeks to go before the orbit is nailed down, but this is how it stands at present:
M.P.E.C. 2011-M11 Issued 2011 June 17, 17:30
C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)
T 2013 Mar. 23.86124 TT MPC
q 0.3150603 (2000.0) P Q
Peri. 333.30917 +0.35872293 +0.22400832
Node 65.09482 +0.92945994 +0.00387820
e 1.0 Incl. 92.46497 -0.08615156 +0.97457952
From 54 observations 2011 May 21-June 11.
Best,
Les D
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