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E. Schwab, Egelsbach, Germany, reports his recovery of this comet (cf.
IAUC 7998) on CCD images that he obtained remotely on two nights with the
0.8-m f/3 Schmidt reflector at Calar Alto, Spain, as well as on CCD images
taken at Schwab's request by E. Kuusela with the 1.0-m f/4.4 reflector at the
European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station, Tenerife. Twelve 60-s
exposures taken on Aug. 18.1 and 19.1 UT with the Schmidt telescope show a
tail about 5" long in p.a. about 250 degrees. Schwab's measurements of the
ten stacked 60-s 1.0-m reflector images taken on Aug. 19.2 show a tail about
8" long in p.a. 250 degrees.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Erwin!
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Epoch = 2021 Dec. 12.0 TT
T = 2021 Dec. 14.54908 TT Peri. = 326.73183
e = 0.4386730 Node = 123.09142 2000.0
q = 3.9378768 AU Incl. = 30.85150
a = 7.0152996 AU n = 0.05304381 P = 18.58 years