78P/Gehrels (Record n° 31743)
Perihelion distance : 2 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 6 °
Orbital period : 7.21 years
Eccentricity : 0.46
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Aug 08 02h57 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " r (dist/Sun) 2.037 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.516 AU Right ascension 83.83221 ° Declination +20.70239 ° 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 3
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.08.08 07:54:57
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0078P KC2026 08 08.12269 05 35 19.73 +20 42 08.6 15.2 r L27
0078P KC2026 08 08.13164 05 35 20.97 +20 42 08.2 15.0 r L27
0078P KC2026 08 08.13918 05 35 22.02 +20 42 07.7 15.3 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 Exposure details 60 x 30s 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 Aug 08 09h11m05s Observation modification date 2026 Aug 08 13h18m38s