Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams

Comet P/2012 TK_8 (Tenagra)

Discovery

Discovery announced on CBET 3262.

Orbit

The following orbital elements are taken from Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2012-U41:

                                                                                
    P/2012 TK8                                                                  
T 2013 May  9.7986 TT         Orbital elements by G. V. Williams                     
q   3.089703             (2000.0)            P               Q                  
n   0.1152034      Peri.  128.0876      +0.5282032      -0.8428273              
a   4.183044       Node   289.7266      +0.7407067      +0.5167557              
e   0.261374       Incl.    6.2922      +0.4151566      +0.1503520              
P   8.56                                                                        
From 15 observations 2012 Oct. 6-15.

An ephemeris (based on above elements) is available here.

Images

Light Curve

Observations

Photometry

Photometric observations of this comet from the ICQ archive are available here.

Astrometry

Astrometric observations of this comet from the Minor Planet Center archive are available here.

Links

A list of published articles/papers related to this comet from the Astrophysics Data System are available here.

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