162P/Siding Spring (Record n° 31912)
Perihelion distance : 1.29 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 28 °
Orbital period : 5.44 years
Eccentricity : 0.58
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Sep 22 03h52 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " Magnitude band r r (dist/Sun) 1.881 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.383 AU Right ascension 143.38067 ° Declination +36.72678 ° 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 2026.09.22 06:43:38
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0162P KC2026 09 22.16106 09 33 31.36 +36 43 36.4 18.3 r L27
0162P KC2026 09 22.17082 09 33 32.88 +36 43 34.0 18.1 r L27
0162P KC2026 09 22.18023 09 33 34.33 +36 43 31.9 18.2 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 -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Picture exposure details 40 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 Sep 22 04h58m19s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 22 05h21m22s