21P/Giacobini-Zinner (Record n° 5458)
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 16 17h40 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 11.3 Aperture radius for m2 15 " r (dist/Sun) 1.098 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.895 AU Right ascension 318.39896 ° Declination -4.65528 ° MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS F.Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.06-m f/3.6 refractor + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.01.17 07:19:49
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET NOMAD
0021P C2012 01 16.73649 21 13 35.75 -04 39 19.0 11.3 N A77
0021P C2012 01 16.74517 21 13 38.14 -04 39 15.2 11.3 N A77
Instrument type Refractor Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 60 mm Instrument focale length 216 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.6 Camera ST8300 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 1x1 Mount HEQ5pro Autoguide No Picture exposure details 15x1mn Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) NOMAD
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 5.13 "/pix Observation submission date 2012 Jan 17 08h27m13s Observation modification date 2012 Jan 17 08h28m57s