Comet C/1959 Y1 Burnham

Nongravitational nominal solution


   Observational arc:        1960 01 04 - 1960 06 17  
   Number of observations:   88  
   RMS:                      1.60 arcsec (146 residuals used, 17.0% rejected residuals ) 

Heliocentric osculating orbit

  Epoch        Perihelion time   q             e            ω              Ω            i      
  1960 03 07   19600320.995235   0.50429007    0.99977515   306.635821    252.639194   159.598649        
                    ± 0.000324   0.00001675    0.00008836     0.000434      0.000715     0.000493         

  NG parameters:   
   A1 = ( 9.4822  ± 1.2439 )×10-8 AU/day2  
   A2 = ( 1.2762  ± 0.5725 )×10-8 AU/day2  
   A3 = ( 0.72509 ± 0.19787)×10-8 AU/day2  
   τ  = (-9.2748  ± 1.5467 ) days                         

Barycentric nominal original orbit (at 250 AU from the Sun)

  Epoch        Perihelion time   q             e             ω             Ω            i      
  1662 12 14   19600321.812727   0.50420900    0.99999894    306.629606   253.228894   159.617190              
                    ± 0.001583   0.00002604    0.00006246      0.002665     0.000993     0.000246         
   1/aori =  (+2.09 ± 123.88)×10-6 AU-1  

Barycentric nominal future orbit (at 250 AU from the Sun)

  Epoch        Perihelion time   q             e             ω             Ω            i      
  2254 05 05   19600321.174193   0.49958552    1.00014320    306.581750   253.431153   159.603175              
                    ± 0.000466   0.00001217    0.00001672      0.002241     0.000633     0.000207         
   1/afut = (-286.65 ± 33.46)×10-6 AU-1  

In the 17th edition of the Catalogue of Cometary orbits (2008):

Nongravitational orbit (37 obs.) with A1 = +5.9×10-8 AU/day2 and A2 = -1.4×10-8 AU/day2


The same comet in some other internet sources:


More details

Starting swarms of VCs...(heliocentric, osculating orbits)


Gravitational osculating swarm



Nongravitational osculating swarm,
A1, A2, A3 randomly selected,
τ - fixed
during swarm generation.

Nongravitational osculating swarm,
A3, , τ - fixed
during swarm generation.


Original and future orbit at the 250 AU from the Sun.

Comet number 8 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]
8 C/1959 Y1 Burnham
weighting
-138.32 ± 15.93 -592.78 ± 15.90
1960 03 07
-589.97 ± 15.94 3.00 +2.09 ± 123.88 +445.88 ± 175.21
1960 03 07
-286.65 ± 33.46 1.60 9.482 ± 1.244
1.276 ± 0.572
0.7251 ± 0.1979
-9.27 ± 1.55


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.

Past orbit, at previous perihelion for the returning VCs :

1959y1amsz.png
Past, gravitational.


1959y1nmz.png
Past, nongravitational , asynchronous.
1959y1nmez.png
Past, nongravitational, asynchronous,
142 returning outstanding VCs were omitted.


1959y1nmz.png
Past, nongravitational , asynchronous,
A3 fixed during swarm generation.
1959y1nmez.png
Past, nongravitational, asynchronous,
A3 fixed during swarm generation and
180 returning outstanding VCs were omitted.


1959y1nmsz.png
Past, nongravitational , synchronous.
1959y1nmsez.png
Past, nongravitational, synchronous,
42 returning and 9 escaping outstanding
VCs were omitted.


1959y1nmsz.png
Past, nongravitational, synchronous,
A3 fixed during swarm generation.
1959y1nmsez.png
Past, nongravitational , synchronous,
A3 fixed during swarm generation and
26 returning outstanding VCs were omitted.



Future orbits, at the escape border (no returning VCs) :

1959y1apsz.png
Future, gravitational.


1959y1npsz.png
Future, nongravitational,
A1,A2 i A3 randomly selected
during swarm generation.
1959y1npz.png
Future, nongravitational,
A3 fixed during swarm generation.