------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1790 2002 Jly 31 14.02UT 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.theastronomer.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- COMET C/2002 O4 (HOENIG) The comet reported on E-Circular 1789 has now been named as above. The discovery was made visually by S. Hoenig (Dossenheim, Germany) with 0.25-m f/6.3 Schmidt-Cassegrain. Coma dia 2'. Orbital elements: T 2002 Oct 1.9900 TT w 105.77300 ) e 1.00000000 O 321.01400 ) 2000.0 q 0.7784900 A.U. i 73.06700 ) Source: MPEC 2002-045 Positions are geocentric m = 9.5 + 5.0 log R + 10.0 log r Date R.A. (2000) Dec. R r Elong Mag. Motion h m o ' (AU) (AU) o "/hr P.A. 2002 Aug 1.00 23 12.51 +49 8.4 0.699 1.374 105.1 10.1 318 347 2.00 23 9.38 +51 13.5 0.690 1.361 104.3 10.0 325 346 3.00 23 5.80 +53 20.8 0.681 1.347 103.4 10.0 332 345 4.00 23 1.70 +55 29.9 0.674 1.333 102.4 9.9 338 344 5.00 22 56.98 +57 40.5 0.667 1.320 101.4 9.8 343 343 6.00 22 51.50 +59 51.8 0.662 1.306 100.2 9.8 347 341 7.00 22 45.11 +62 3.5 0.658 1.293 99.0 9.7 350 340 8.00 22 37.58 +64 14.6 0.654 1.279 97.8 9.6 352 338 9.00 22 28.65 +66 24.5 0.652 1.266 96.5 9.6 354 336 10.00 22 17.94 +68 32.1 0.651 1.252 95.1 9.5 354 333 11.00 22 4.97 +70 36.1 0.650 1.239 93.7 9.5 353 330 12.00 21 49.08 +72 35.2 0.651 1.226 92.2 9.5 350 326 13.00 21 29.44 +74 27.4 0.653 1.212 90.7 9.4 347 321 14.00 21 5.01 +76 10.0 0.655 1.199 89.2 9.4 343 315 15.00 20 34.65 +77 39.8 0.659 1.186 87.7 9.3 338 308 16.00 19 57.48 +78 52.5 0.664 1.173 86.2 9.3 332 299 17.00 19 13.64 +79 43.4 0.669 1.160 84.6 9.3 326 288 18.00 18 25.14 +80 8.4 0.675 1.147 83.1 9.2 320 276 19.00 17 35.92 +80 6.0 0.682 1.134 81.6 9.2 313 263 20.00 16 50.23 +79 38.4 0.690 1.122 80.0 9.2 306 252 21.00 16 10.77 +78 50.4 0.698 1.109 78.5 9.2 298 242 Joni Pegram