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Orlando
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/Soft00Cmt.txt
gives the abolute magnitude as 10.0. Looking that up in
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Sizes.html
for an icy body (albedo = 0.5) gives a diameter of 19 kilometers. Lots of assumptions and uncertainty are in that estimate, but it at least will give you a general idea.
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KarlInOhio
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Thank You
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04/16/2004 8:55:54 PM PDT
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Orlando
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