73P-BT/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 17822)
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 08 09h41 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.9 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Right ascension 6.97213 ° Declination -5.47561 ° 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 2017.05.08
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0073Pbt C2017 05 08.40360 00 27 53.31 -05 28 32.2 15.8 N W96
0073Pbt C2017 05 08.40981 00 27 54.37 -05 28 27.1 16.0 N W96
0073Pbt C2017 05 08.41646 00 27 55.46 -05 28 20.0 15.9 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 2160 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.4 Sensor CCD Exposure details 30 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 15h19m05s Observation modification date 2017 Jun 09 15h24m46s