Nongravitational nominal solution
Obs. arc: 1946 11 01 - 1948 10 02 Number of obs: 142 RMS: 1.35 arc second, (253 residuals used, 10.9% rejected residuals)
Osculating, original and future orbits embargoed (were obtained in different project - results not published yet).
In the 17th edition of the Catalogue of Cometary orbits (2008):
Gravitational orbit (97 obs.) 1/aori < 0 original barycetric original orbit - hyperbolic.
The same comet in some other internet sources:
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Starting swarms of VCs...(heliocentric, osculating orbits)
Original and future orbit at the 250 AU from the Sun.
Comet number 5 in the Table: Nongravitational Oort spike comets (26 objects)
Name | GR (1/a)ori [10-8 AU/day2] | GR (1/a)osc [10-8 AU/day2] epoch [TT] | GR 1/afut [10-8 AU/day2] | RMSGR [arcsec] | NG (1/a)ori [10-8 AU/day2] | NG (1/a)osc [10-8 AU/day2] epoch [TT] | NG 1/afut [10-8 AU/day2] | RMSNG [arcsec] | NG parameters A1 A2 A3 [10-8 AU/day2] tau shift [day] | |
5 | C/1946 U1 Bester weighting | 5.72 ± 4.97 | -386.73 ± 5.02 1947 02 24 | +32.53 ± 4.97 | 1.53 | +23.41 ± 5.25 | -358.23 ± 6.69 1947 02 24 | +52.21 ± 5.25 | 1.35 | 21.953 ± 4.618 |
Note: in the following plots black denotes returning clones while red denotes escaping ones.The nominal solution is located at the center of the green circle. Each plot have a header where date of calculation and some other parameters are coded. Also numbers of returning (B=shown+omitted), escaping (C=shown+omitted) and all (T=shown+omitted) Vcs are shown.
Comet C/1946 U1, standard and extended "escape" border.
Past orbits, at previous perihelion for the returning VCs :
Future orbits, at next perihelion :