Nongravitational nominal solution
Obs. arc: 1978 04 28 - 1979 12 09 Number of obs: 287 RMS: 1.00 arc second, (565 residuals used, 4.9% rejected residuals)
Heliocentric osculating orbit
Epoch Perihelion time q e ω Ω i
1978 11 28 19781111.408775 1.13650660 1.00079425 231.401425 349.344859 43.761723
±0.000236 0.00000288 0.00000972 0.000104 0.000060 0.000084
NG parameters:
A1= (1.2917 ± 0.1982) 10-8 AU/day2
A2=(0.41506 ± 0.12476) 10-8 AU/day2
A3= 0 (assumed)
Barycentric nominal original orbit (at 250 AU from the Sun)
Epoch Perihelion time q e ω Ω i
1679 08 07 19781110.596515 1.12973415 0.99990900 231.440876 350.248621 43.766722
±0.000480 0.00000614 0.00001212 0.000543 0.000065 0.000086
1/aori = (+80.55 ± 10.73) 10-6 AU-1
Barycentric nominal future orbit (at 250 AU from the Sun)
Epoch Perihelion time q e ω Ω i
2266 07 01 19781110.554368 1.14083841 1.00116958 231.488113 350.041308 43.684111
±0.000446 0.00000560 0.00000931 0.000411 0.000058 0.000085
1/afut = (-1025.19 ± 8.15) 10-6 AU-1
In the 17th edition of the Catalogue of Cometary orbits (2008):
Gravitational orbit (238 obs.) with 0 < 1/aori < 10-4 AU-1 - original barycentric orbit from the Oort spike.
The same comet in some other internet sources:
More details
Starting swarms of VCs...(heliocentric, osculating orbits)
Gravitational osculating swarm
Nongravitational osculating swarm
Original and future orbit at the 250 AU from the Sun.
Comet number 9 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] | |
| 9 | C/1978 H1 Meier weighting | +23.79 ± 2.42 | -748.17 ± 2.40 1978 11 28 | -1028.68 ± 2.42 | 1.04 | +80.55 ± 10.73 | -698.85 ± 8.55 1978 11 28 | -1025.19 ± 8.15 | 1.00 | 1.292 ± 0.198 0.4151 ± 0.1248 |
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 :
Past, gravitational, asynchronous.
Past, gravitational, asynchronous,
the escape border extended up to 130 000 AU.
Past, gravitational, synchronous.
Past, gravitational, synchronous,
the escape border extended up to 130 000 AU.
Past, nongravitational, asynchronous.
Past, nongravitational, synchronous.
Future orbits, at the escape border (no returning VCs) :
Future, gravitational, asynchronous.
Future, gravitational, synchronous.
Future, nongravitational, asynchronous.
Future, nongravitational, synchronous.
