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- From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
- Subject: Re: Okay, what are the new odds? (was Re: Swift_tuttle's orbit)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.040449.9499@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Organization: Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:04:49 GMT
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- Bill Higgins writes:
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- > Also, could you explain what your outgassing coefficients A1 and A2
- > are to those of us who are not comet specialists?
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- Radial and tangential, respectively. There's also an A3 which is normal
- to the orbit plane. Rarely solved for, but it's been done for P/Clark,
- P/Swift-Gehrels, and Wilson (1986l), plus a few others for which more
- recent orbit determinations have omitted it.
-
- Then there's the old B1 and B2...
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