A candidate for the parent body of the Taurid complex and its search ephemeris

Untypical asteroid 5025 P-L, with its perihelion close to the orbit of Mercury and its aphelion between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, seems to be a good candidate for the parent body of the Taurid complex of small interplanetary objects. Evidence that this asteroid is a major source of meteoroids as well as an analysis of the orbits of asteroidal and cometary members of the Taurid complex, lead to the conclusion that 5025 P-L might be regarded as a remnant of a giant comet which was a progenitor of the overall complex according to the hypothesis of Clube and Napier. Unfortunately, the orbit of 5025 P-L is very poorly determined because the computations were based upon only three positional observations over an arc of only four days in October 1960. Any further research on the problem of origin and evolution of the Taurid complex needs better determined orbit of this key asteroid. Therefore its new positions are necessary. In order to enable the search of eventual trails of 5025 P-L on plates which can be found in archives, its ephemeris for the opposition in 1960, when the asteroid passed about 0.5 AU from the Earth, is presented.