2P/Encke (Record n° 7763)
Perihelion distance : 0.34 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 3.3 years
Eccentricity : 0.85
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Oct 13 20h07 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 20.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 r (dist/Sun) 3.795 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.969 AU Right ascension 340.60013 ° Declination -3.70603 ° MPC report COD 586
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.B. de Vanssay, T. Noel, H. Boussier, N. Biver
OBS P. Dupouy, F. Colas, J.F. Soulier
MEA J.B. de Vanssay, J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.60-m f/3.5 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.10.13
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0002P KC2012 10 13.83793 22 42 24.03 -03 42 21.7 20.0 N 586
0002P KC2012 10 13.84622 22 42 23.56 -03 42 22.9 20.2 N 586
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 600 mm Instrument focale length 2100 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.5 Camera STL 6300 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 1x1 Autoguide No Picture exposure details 10 X 120s Seeing 3 Observatory MPC code 586 Location Pic du Midi - France Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-3
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Observation submission date 2012 Oct 14 18h06m56s Observation modification date 2012 Oct 18 10h07m49s