P/2018 VN2 (Leonard) (Record n° 31590)
Perihelion distance : 2.12 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 18 °
Orbital period : 8.18 years
Eccentricity : 0.48
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Jun 27 00h36 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " r (dist/Sun) 2.158 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.103 AU Right ascension 8.40817 ° Declination +21.27125 ° MPC report COD L27
CON J.-F. Soulier
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.25-m f/3.5 reflector + CCD
NUM 2
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.06.27 08:08:01
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
PK18V02N KC2026 06 27.02494 00 33 37.96 +21 16 16.5 18.9 r L27
PK18V02N KC2026 06 27.04666 00 33 40.15 +21 16 31.5 18.5 r L27
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 875 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.5 Filter None Camera ATIK 414 EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -5 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Picture exposure details 60 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2
Used softwares Tycho Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Jun 27 08h14m06s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 25 09h03m02s