2P/Encke (Record n° 16520)
Perihelion distance : 0.34 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 3.3 years
Eccentricity : 0.85
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2016 Nov 16 19h14 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18.4 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.963 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.327 AU Right ascension 345.54167 ° Declination +6.64392 ° MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.11.17 07:23:53
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET Gaia DR1
0002P KC2016 11 16.80172 23 02 10.00 +06 38 38.1 18.3 N A77
0002P KC2016 11 16.81748 23 02 09.12 +06 38 29.7 18.4 N A77
0002P KC2016 11 16.83315 23 02 08.23 +06 38 21.5 18.5 N A77
Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Picture exposure details 15x120s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) Gaia DR1
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Nov 17 07h26m55s Observation modification date 2016 Nov 17 07h34m44s