78P/Gehrels (Record n° 5414)
Perihelion distance : 2 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 6 °
Orbital period : 7.21 years
Eccentricity : 0.46
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Dec 21 18h15 UT by Joel Nicolas
(Copyright Joel Nicolas)Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.6 " r (dist/Sun) 2.017 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.659 AU Right ascension 4.81263 ° Declination +1.57489 ° 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 2011.12.24 10:36:43
AC2 [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
NET USNO-A2.0
0078P C2011 12 21.76067 00 19 15.03 +01 34 29.6 14.3 N B51
0078P C2011 12 21.76557 00 19 15.46 +01 34 31.3 14.2 N B51
0078P C2011 12 21.77101 00 19 15.93 +01 34 33.5 14.2 N B51
0078P C2011 12 21.77808 00 19 16.51 +01 34 35.8 14.2 N B51
Instrument 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 900 s Air mass 1.35 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 Dec 24 10h39m21s Observation modification date 2011 Dec 24 10h51m51s