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 17 0.0 2446567.50 10 27.968(-0.028) -9 40.88( 0.78) 1.3087 56.6472 1.8651 24.6435 106.3 31.4 28.6 107.2 119.1 1986 5 18 0.0 2446568.50 10 27.323(-0.025) -9 22.71( 0.73) 1.3414 56.7374 1.8793 24.5875 105.1 31.3 22.2 107.6 115.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------