2P/Encke (Record n° 17084)
Perihelion distance : 0.34 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 3.3 years
Eccentricity : 0.85
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Jan 29 18h31 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 0.964 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.294 AU Right ascension 353.45475 ° Declination +6.174 ° 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 2017.01.30 20:44:44
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0002P KC2017 01 29.77129 23 33 49.14 +06 10 26.4 16.7 N A77
0002P KC2017 01 29.78291 23 33 50.13 +06 10 30.4 16.4 N A77
0002P KC2017 01 29.79455 23 33 51.13 +06 10 34.7 16.6 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 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Picture exposure details 15x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Jan 30 21h56m33s Observation modification date 2017 Jan 30 22h18m20s