253P/PANSTARRS (Record n° 4681)
Perihelion distance : 2.02 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 5 °
Orbital period : 6.43 years
Eccentricity : 0.42
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Sep 29 20h45 UT by Joel Nicolas
(Copyright Joel Nicolas)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17 Aperture radius for m2 5.6 " r (dist/Sun) 2.085 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.112 AU Right ascension 349.519 ° Declination -9.39178 ° MPC report COD B51
CON J. NICOLAS [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J. Nicolas
MEA J. Nicolas
TEL 0.41-m f/3.3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.09.30 18:29:10
AC2 [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
NET USNO-A2.0
PK11R020 KC2011 09 29.86451 23 18 04.56 -09 23 30.4 17.0 N B51
PK11R020 KC2011 09 29.87484 23 18 04.27 -09 23 33.5 17.0 N B51Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 410 mm Instrument focale length 1353 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.3 Filter None Camera ST8XME Sensor CCD Binning 1x1 Exposure total time 1200 s Air mass 1.79 Observatory MPC code B51 Location 06 Vallauris Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-A2.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.4 "/pix Observation submission date 2011 Sep 30 18h34m25s Observation modification date 2011 Sep 30 18h35m22s