46P/Wirtanen (Record n° 2880)
Perihelion distance : 1.06 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 12 °
Orbital period : 5.44 years
Eccentricity : 0.66
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2008 Feb 06 18h38 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 r (dist/Sun) 1.059 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.928 AU Right ascension 22.46617 ° Declination +9.7405 ° MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.5-m f/3 reflector + CCD
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0046P C2008 02 06.77634 01 29 51.88 +09 44 25.8 15.2 N A77
0046P C2008 02 06.78132 01 29 52.95 +09 44 37.2 15.0 N A77
0046P C2008 02 06.78629 01 29 54.09 +09 44 49.6 15.2 N A77
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 500 mm Instrument focale length 1500 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Sensor CCD Exposure details 14x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-B1.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.25 "/pix Observation submission date 2011 May 06 21h49m16s Observation modification date 2016 Jan 03 18h26m31s