Comet P/2012 TB_36 = P/1960 S1 (van Houten-Lemmon)

Discovery

Discovery announced on CBET 3269. Identification announced on CBET 3270.

Orbit

The following orbital elements are taken from CBET 3270:

Orbital elements by G. V. Williams:

                    Epoch = 1961 May  21.0 TT
     T = 1961 May   2.97801 TT        Peri. =  15.50908
     e = 0.3755235                    Node  =  23.67198 2000.0
     q = 3.9343188 AU                 Incl. =   6.62399
       a =  6.3001874 AU   n = 0.06232666   P =  15.81 years

                    Epoch = 2013 July  7.0 TT
     T = 2013 July  6.06529 TT        Peri. =  35.15932
     e = 0.3912842                    Node  =   9.58389 2000.0
     q = 4.2498500 AU                 Incl. =   6.85676
       a =  6.9816656 AU   n = 0.05342758   P =  18.45 years

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

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.

Central Bureau for Astro. Tel.	Cometary Science Archive	International Comet Quarterly
Minor Planet Center	Origins/Harvard	EPS/Harvard