21P/Giacobini-Zinner (Record n° 5455)
Perihelion distance : 1.01 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 32 °
Orbital period : 6.52 years
Eccentricity : 0.71
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Jan 13 18h51 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 11.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 10 " r (dist/Sun) 1.113 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.906 AU Right ascension 315.35421 ° Declination -4.70167 ° MPC report COD J43
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.5-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.01.13 21:24:26
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET NOMAD
0021P C2012 01 13.78549 21 01 25.01 -04 42 06.0 11.6 N J43
0021P C2012 01 13.78798 21 01 25.62 -04 42 06.0 11.7 N J43
0021P C2012 01 13.79047 21 01 26.24 -04 42 05.6 11.6 N J43
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 500 mm Instrument focale length 1500 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter R (RGB) Camera ST11k Sensor CCD Sensor size 24x36 mm2 Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 2x2 Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure details 11x30s Observatory MPC code J43 Reference stars catalog (ast) NOMAD
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.48 "/pix Observation submission date 2012 Jan 13 22h59m18s Observation modification date 2012 Jan 15 10h59m48s