Toghether with a colleague, I rediscovered a comet. A few rather precise sketches were found in a document written onboard of the first Swedish commercial expedition to China in 1732 and 1733. Toghether with Dr. Brian G. Marsden, we succeeded to establish the comet's orbit.
The orbital elements, as they appear in the "Catalogue of cometary orbits 1995" are:
Comet C/1733 K1 (epoch 2000.0)
T 1733 May 6.159 peri. 187.891
q 0.10297 node 271.052
e 1.0 incl. 23.792
More information is available in a paper by Koninckx, Vanouplines, and Marsden. That paper appeared in 1995, in Vistas in Astronomy (vol. 39, pp. 1-12); title: Comet C/1733 K1 -- Discovery, Rediscovery and Orbit.
URL of this page is: [http://www.vub.ac.be/STER/www.astro/c1733.htm]
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