[AZ-Observing] Orbit for Snyder-Murakami

     A first orbit has been published for this comet.  Given the short arc,
the ephemeris should be good enough for finding only over the coming couple
of weeks.  If things go as usual, an improved orbit will be done at the end of
the current lunation.  Since the comet is a good ways from Earth, the predicted
sky location shouldn't change dramatically as was the case with Ikeya-Zhang.
     Nearly all the astrometric follow-up, by the way, was done by amateur
observers all over the world.  Complete details can be found at:

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K02/K02E43.html

\Brian

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Orbital elements:
    C/2002 E2 (Snyder-Murakami)
T 2002 Feb. 22.890 TT                                   MPC
q   1.47019              (2000.0)            P               Q
                   Peri.    9.933       -0.428016       +0.029461
                   Node   244.743       -0.882521       -0.229085
e   1.0            Incl.   92.840       -0.194831       +0.972960
From 59 observations 2002 Mar. 12-13.

Ephemeris:
    C/2002 E2 (Snyder-Murakami)
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase   m1    m2
2002 03 07    18 49.96   -05 06.4    1.605    1.480    64.5    37.2  10.2
2002 03 12    18 55.69   -00 23.7    1.543    1.490    68.0    38.2  10.2
2002 03 17    19 01.12   +04 42.2    1.487    1.503    71.4    38.9  10.1
2002 03 22    19 06.20   +10 10.6    1.440    1.519    74.7    39.2  10.1
2002 03 27    19 10.92   +15 58.9    1.403    1.539    77.7    39.3  10.1
2002 04 01    19 15.20   +22 02.9    1.378    1.561    80.4    39.1  10.1

Brian G. Marsden             (C) Copyright 2002 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2002-E43
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