78P/Gehrels (Record n° 21822)
Perihelion distance : 2 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 6 °
Orbital period : 7.21 years
Eccentricity : 0.46
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2020 Mar 17 19h58 UT by Michael Irzyk
(Copyright Michael Irzyk)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.6 Aperture radius for m2 10 " r (dist/Sun) 3.232 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.452 AU Right ascension 132.23104 ° Declination +10.00922 ° Instrument type Refractor Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 85 mm Instrument focale length 451 mm Filter None Camera H694 Sensor CCD Motorization No Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 7080 s Picture exposure details 59x2min Location Boissettes 77350 France Reference stars catalog (ast) Tycho-2 Used softwares PRISM Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.08 "/pix Observation submission date 2020 Apr 04 11h54m20s