73P-BT/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 17818)
Perihelion distance : 0.94 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 5.4 years
Eccentricity : 0.69
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 May 05 09h48 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Right ascension 4.79154 ° Declination -6.255 ° MPC report COD W96
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/5.4 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.05.05
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0073Pbt C2017 05 05.40859 00 19 09.97 -06 15 18.0 15.5 N W96
0073Pbt C2017 05 05.41330 00 19 10.79 -06 15 14.0 15.6 N W96
0073Pbt C2017 05 05.41833 00 19 11.72 -06 15 09.0 15.7 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 2160 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.4 Filter None Sensor CCD Exposure details 26 x 30s Observatory MPC code W96 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.53 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Jun 09 15h17m58s Observation modification date 2017 Jun 09 15h22m07s