------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1538 2000 Jly 04 07.26UT Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise, Basingstoke, Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074 INTERNET: GUY@TAHQ.DEMON.CO.UK GMH at AST.STAR.RL.AC.UK WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.demon.co.uk/astronomer ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2000 NM L.L.Amburgey, Fitchburg (Station code 823) reports discovery of a fast-moving asteroid, 2000 NM, using a 0.212-m reflector and CCD: RA (2000) DEC 2000 07 02.16637 18 12 37.93 -10 20 56.1 823 2000 07 02.19145 18 12 34.56 -10 16 55.8 823 2000 07 03.07880 18 10 47.56 -07 49 32.3 823 2000 07 03.08236 18 10 47.08 -07 48 56.0 823 2000 07 03.08713 18 10 46.44 -07 48 07.4 823 2000 07 03.09587 18 10 45.24 -07 46 37.3 823 Orbital elements by Gareth Williams: Epoch 2000 June 25.0 TT = JDT 2451720.5 M 346.61206 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21990269 Peri. 69.84283 +0.89304610 +0.23679251 a 2.7184146 Node 274.90199 -0.39044983 +0.83044242 e 0.6633685 Incl. 22.58319 +0.22364614 +0.50427641 P 4.48 H 16.3 G 0.15 (From 67 observations 2000 July 2-3). Ephemeris: Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2000 06 25 18 24.65 -25 08.5 0.232 1.249 177.4 2.1 13.9 2000 06 30 18 16.74 -15 42.2 0.191 1.206 171.1 7.5 13.6 2000 07 05 18 06.59 -01 58.5 0.159 1.164 155.8 21.0 13.7 2000 07 10 17 53.78 +16 14.1 0.142 1.124 136.3 38.7 13.9 2000 07 15 17 37.35 +36 07.0 0.143 1.086 115.6 57.6 14.3 2000 07 20 17 15.18 +53 16.4 0.159 1.050 98.1 73.3 15.0 2000 07 25 16 42.69 +65 50.8 0.186 1.018 85.4 84.1 15.6 2000 07 30 15 50.3 +74 19.1 0.219 0.989 76.9 90.6 16.2 2000 08 04 14 21.8 +79 20.7 0.255 0.964 71.4 94.0 16.6 2000 08 09 12 18.5 +81 00.5 0.292 0.944 68.0 95.3 16.9 2000 08 14 10 33.7 +79 57.4 0.330 0.929 66.0 95.1 17.1 2000 08 19 09 32.4 +77 40.3 0.366 0.919 65.0 93.8 17.3 2000 08 24 08 59.3 +75 03.0 0.402 0.915 64.8 91.8 17.4 2000 08 29 08 41.1 +72 24.9 0.436 0.917 65.2 89.2 17.5 2000 09 03 08 30.92 +69 52.0 0.468 0.925 66.2 86.2 17.5 2000 09 08 08 25.30 +67 26.0 0.497 0.938 67.6 83.1 17.6 2000 09 13 08 22.33 +65 07.4 0.524 0.957 69.3 79.8 17.6 2000 09 18 08 20.85 +62 56.7 0.547 0.980 71.5 76.5 17.6 2000 09 23 08 20.05 +60 54.0 0.567 1.007 74.0 73.2 17.6 M.P.E.C. 2000-N07 (extract) Guy M Hurst