21P/Giacobini-Zinner (Record n° 5970)
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 Mar 09 18h43 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 11.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 28 " r (dist/Sun) 1.095 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.906 AU Right ascension 15.62229 ° Declination -1.18119 ° MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.08-m f/5 refractor + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.03.09 19:39:45
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET NOMAD
0021P KC2012 03 09.78029 01 02 29.35 -01 10 52.3 11.8 N A77
0021P KC2012 03 09.78421 01 02 30.39 -01 10 53.5 11.8 N A77
0021P KC2012 03 09.78888 01 02 31.35 -01 10 57.6 11.9 N A77
Instrument type Refractor Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 80 mm Instrument focale length 400 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5 Filter IR pro Camera st8300 sbig Sensor CCD Sensor size 14x18 mm2 Sensor pixels number 1266x1676 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 2x2 Mount HEQ5pro Picture exposure details 13x60s Air mass 8.41 Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) NOMAD
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 28 "/pix Observation submission date 2012 Mar 09 21h01m26s Observation modification date 2012 Mar 09 21h04m41s