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The 1600 metre wide comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova will make a close pass (23.4 lunar distances, 0.0601 AU), travelling at 24.63 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th August, 2011 @ 07:36 UT ±00:01.

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

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Date       UT      R.A. (J2000) Decl.    Delta     r     El.    Ph.   Mag
2011 04 26 000000 20 28 00.6 -19 58 02   2.131   2.370   90.8  25.1  22.6
2011 05 06 000000 20 39 54.3 -19 28 39   1.900   2.268   97.7  26.2  22.0
2011 05 16 000000 20 51 16.9 -19 01 44   1.673   2.162  104.7  26.9  21.3
2011 05 26 000000 21 02 05.5 -18 39 13   1.450   2.053  111.7  27.3  20.6
2011 06 05 000000 21 12 14.4 -18 24 03   1.235   1.941  118.9  27.2  19.7
2011 06 15 000000 21 21 39.2 -18 20 16   1.029   1.824  126.3  26.7  18.8
2011 06 25 000000 21 30 19.0 -18 34 00   0.834   1.704  133.9  25.5  17.7
2011 07 05 000000 21 38 14.2 -19 16 23   0.649   1.579  141.7  23.5  16.5
2011 07 15 000000 21 45 45.6 -20 49 05   0.478   1.449  149.6  20.8  15.1
2011 07 25 000000 21 54 16.2 -24 09 28   0.319   1.315  156.7  17.8  13.4
2011 08 04 000000 22 10 41.1 -33 07 56   0.173   1.176  156.8  19.9  11.1
2011 08 14 000000 02 51 46.2 -72 44 03   0.063   1.033  106.9  69.7   7.8
2011 08 24 000000 09 12 21.7 -10 09 57   0.138   0.889   25.8 150.3   8.2
2011 09 03 000000 09 30 51.7 +03 02 30   0.282   0.749   19.3 153.5   8.2
2011 09 13 000000 09 43 59.8 +07 26 23   0.451   0.625   24.6 137.8   7.7
2011 09 23 000000 10 03 51.4 +08 51 07   0.652   0.544   29.7 113.8   7.3
2011 10 03 000000 10 33 05.0 +08 11 27   0.873   0.537   32.4  87.0   7.8
2011 10 13 000000 11 06 57.4 +06 10 18   1.082   0.609   33.7  65.5   9.4
2011 10 23 000000 11 39 35.2 +03 39 43   1.262   0.729   35.2  52.0  11.3
2011 11 02 000000 12 08 38.5 +01 11 43   1.408   0.867   37.6  44.3  13.0
2011 11 12 000000 12 33 58.2 -01 01 22   1.524   1.011   40.9  39.9  14.5


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The comet will make a close pass (0.0601 AU, 8,990,000 km) to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th August, 2011.
The comet is a possible parent body of the Chi Capricornids meteor shower.

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Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Dec.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase   mag.
2006 06 14    03 33.70   +17 07.8    1.315    0.626    27.5    48.6   10.0  
2006 06 19    04 10.38   +19 19.2    1.348    0.578    23.3    44.1   09.4  
2006 06 24    04 47.99   +21 03.5    1.392    0.545    19.1    37.6   08.9  
2006 06 29    05 25.94   +22 16.4    1.443    0.531    15.0    29.6   08.8  
2006 07 04    06 03.44   +22 55.5    1.499    0.538    11.0    21.2   09.0  
2006 07 09    06 39.63   +23 01.8    1.558    0.565    07.5    13.5   09.5  
2006 07 14    07 13.80   +22 39.1    1.618    0.609    04.4    07.3   10.2 
2006 07 19    07 45.53   +21 52.9    1.680    0.665    01.9    02.9   11.1  
2006 07 24    08 14.67   +20 49.3    1.744    0.728    01.0    01.4   12.0  
2006 07 29    08 41.30   +19 33.6    1.810    0.796    02.3    02.9   12.8


-- Edited by Blobrana at 23:45, 2006-07-01

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This comet is currently in Aries heading towards Taurus.
It was first observed in the Southern Hemisphere at 11.4 mag on June 6, by Michael Mattiazzo.
It will not be visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

Date(TT)  R.A. (2000) Dec.   Delta     r    Elong.  mag   
July  1   5 41.03   22 36.1   1.465   0.531    13    8.6   
July  8   6 32.53   23  3.1   1.546   0.558     8    9.4


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