YR/MON/DAY/HOUR JD RA(1950), DEC(1950), DELTA DELTADOT R RDOT THETA BETA MOON PSANG PSAMV (UT) (MIN/HOUR) (ARCMIN/HOUR) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1987 4 2 0.0 2446887.50 10 2.132(-0.030) -9 44.92( 0.30) 4.5831 31.8051 5.3891 15.6411 140.2 6.8 103.6 85.2 119.8 1987 4 3 0.0 2446888.50 10 1.421(-0.029) -9 37.73( 0.30) 4.6016 32.2883 5.3981 15.6273 139.2 6.9 92.0 86.2 119.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------