Analysis of past comet apparitions

118P/Shoemaker-Levy 4

1996/97


For comet 118P/Shoemaker-Levy 4 we received 22 observations from 3 members of the Fachgruppe Kometen. In spite of additional 42 international observers it is still impossible to define the brightness parameters, because of the small variance of the solar distances within the observation period. The reported estimates can be represented by parameters as diverse as m0=10.2m, n=2 or m0=4m, n=10, with the first the more probable.

Brightness and coma diameter

Andreas Kammerer

Observations


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