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 2 0.0 2446552.50 10 51.547(-0.124) -17 27.76( 2.05) 0.8327 51.9205 1.6479 25.4932 126.9 29.3 139.8 96.0 143.3 1986 5 2 12.0 2446553.00 10 50.097(-0.118) -17 3.58( 1.98) 0.8478 52.2400 1.6552 25.4650 126.1 29.5 144.9 96.7 143.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------