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46P/Wirtanen

Perihelion distance : 1.06 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 12 °
Orbital period : 5.44 years
Eccentricity : 0.66

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Dec 07 02h47 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)9.8
Aperture radius for m10.56 '
Magnitude (MPC m2)11.7
Magnitude standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius for m26.7 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.058 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.096 AU
Right ascension44.24404 °
Declination-8.33708 °
MPC report
COD W96
CON J.-F. 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 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK W96 NEOCP 2018.12.07
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P         C2018 12 07.11602 02 56 58.57 -08 20 13.5           9.8 T      W96
0046P         C2018 12 07.12849 02 57 01.38 -08 18 27.6          11.7 N      W96
0046P         C2018 12 07.16487 02 57 10.50 -08 13 11.4          11.7 N      W96
Instrument typeRitchey-Chretien
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length2000 mm
Instrument focale/diameter5
FilterNone
CameraAPOGEE
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-25 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA 200
AutoguideNo
Exposure details60 x 30s
Observatory MPC codeW96
LocationSan Pedro d'Atacama Chili
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.12 "/pix
Observation submission date2018 Dec 07 07h07m52s
Observation modification date2018 Dec 07 08h47m04s

(Record n° 20121)

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