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<ri:Resource created="2011-06-08T13:40:40Z" status="active" updated="2025-05-19T09:50:00Z" version="1.2" xmlns:ri="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/RegistryInterface/v1.0" xmlns:vr="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0" xmlns:vs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VOResource.xsd http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VODataService.xsd" xsi:type="vs:CatalogService"><title>Database of the orbital elements of comets</title><shortName>B/comets</shortName><identifier>ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/comets</identifier><curation><publisher ivo-id="ivo://CDS">CDS</publisher><creator><name>Rocher P.</name></creator><date role="Updated">2024-09-23T06:19:49Z</date><date role="Created">2011-06-08T13:40:40Z</date><contact><name>CDS support team</name><address>CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France</address><email>cds-question@unistra.fr</email></contact></curation><content><subject>comets</subject><subject>solar-system</subject><description>comets.dat is an ASCII file of cometary orbital elements prepared at the "Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides" (related to the Bureau des Longitudes, Paris). 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