YR/MON/DAY/HOUR JD RA(1950), DEC(1950), DELTA DELTADOT R RDOT THETA BETA MOON PSANG PSAMV (UT) (MIN/HOUR) (ARCMIN/HOUR) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1986 5 9 18.0 2446560.25 10 35.311(-0.059) -12 31.51( 1.22) 1.0738 55.3453 1.7611 25.0532 115.3 31.2 107.8 103.4 138.0 1986 5 10 0.0 2446560.50 10 34.961(-0.057) -12 24.25( 1.20) 1.0818 55.4135 1.7647 25.0390 115.0 31.2 105.0 103.5 137.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | NOTE: Above ephemerides represent fully-perturbed, light-time-corrected solutions to data spanning 1835-1989 | | (cf. the EPHEM.TXT file by D. Yeomans in the DOCUMENT directory). Ephemerides for HOUR=0.0 UT are directly | | from Yeomans; values within a UT day have been generated using a 7-point interpolation scheme and Yeomans' | | daily (0h UT) values. The first and last lines in the table span the time interval between the beginning of | | this data directory and the beginning of the next one. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| DEFINITIONS OF LESS OBVIOUS FIELDS IN THE EPHEMERIS TABLE: THETA = Sun-Earth-Comet angle (degrees) BETA = Sun-Comet-Earth angle (degrees) MOON = Angular separation of comet and moon (degrees) PSANG = Position angle of prolonged radius vector (degrees, measured from north through east) PSAMV = Position angle of minus orbital velocity vector (degrees, measured from north through east) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------