Muraoka's orbit
The following improved orbital elements, by Kenji Muraoka, are
from 190 observations 2002 Feb. 1 to 14, perturbations, by
9 Planets, Moon and 5 minor planets were taken into account.
The mean residual is +/- 0.64 arc seconds.
Epoch = 2002 Mar. 27.0 TT JDT = 2452360.5
T = 2002 Mar. 18.93979 +/- 0.00042 (m.e.) TT
Peri. = 34.57971 +/- 0.00266
Node = 93.41399 +/- 0.01271 (2000.0)
Incl. = 28.11126 +/- 0.00904
q = 0.5071990 +/- 0.0159253 AU
e = 0.9911915 +/- 0.0001950
a = 57.5804972 +/- 1.2823589 AU
n゜ = 0.00225575 +/- 0.00007536
P = 436.93 +/-14.60 years
Sato's orbit
Orbital elements:
C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang)
T 2002 Mar. 18.9389 TT
q 0.507151 (2000.0) P Q
z +0.017650 Peri. 34.5829 -0.5488744 -0.6910284
Node 93.4206 +0.6202357 -0.7138925
e 0.991049 Incl. 28.1107 +0.5603968 +0.1133015
P 426.47
From 190 observations 2002 Feb. 1-14, mean residual 0".65.
[2002年2月16日 20時15分34秒]