78P/Gehrels (Record n° 31810)
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 31 03h13 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.3 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " Magnitude band r r (dist/Sun) 2.078 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.362 AU Right ascension 96.27404 ° Declination +19.75339 ° 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 2026.08.31 08:01:29
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0078P KC2026 08 31.13391 06 25 05.77 +19 45 12.2 15.3 r L27
0078P KC2026 08 31.14618 06 25 07.28 +19 45 09.4 15.3 r L27
0078P KC2026 08 31.15704 06 25 08.60 +19 45 07.0 15.2 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 45 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2
Reference stars catalog (phot) ATLAS2 Used softwares Tycho Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Aug 31 06h36m23s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 04 21h24m38s