Comet C/1993 Q1 Mueller

Nongravitational nominal solution


   Observational arc:        1993 08 16 - 1994 04 17   
   Number of observations:   526  
   RMS:                      0.92 arcsec (1041 residuals used, 1.0% rejected residuals ) 

Heliocentric osculating orbit

  Epoch        Perihelion time   q             e            ω              Ω            i      
  1994 03 29   19940326.275399   0.96732729    1.00022444   261.024006    193.788650   105.025195        
                    ± 0.000376   0.00000951    0.00001560     0.000964      0.000287     0.000091         

  NG parameters:   
   A1 = (3.8289  ± 0.3355 )×10-8 AU/day2  
   A2 = (0.86378 ± 0.12761)×10-8 AU/day2  
   A3 = (0.45461 ± 0.18600)×10-8 AU/day2  

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

  Epoch        Perihelion time   q             e             ω             Ω            i      
  1696 01 10   19940326.010524   0.96693428    0.99998817    261.114059   194.588765   104.967938    
                    ± 0.000219   0.00000212    0.00000437      0.000109     0.000020     0.000014        
   1/aori =  (+12.24 ± 6.15)×10-6 AU-1  

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

  Epoch        Perihelion time   q             e             ω             Ω            i      
  2290 01 16   19940326.878309   0.96276580    1.00019695    260.874459   194.377007   104.963437   
                    ± 0.000485   0.00001197    0.00002253      0.001173     0.000514     0.000174      
  1/afut = (-408.00 ± 23.40)×10-6 AU-1  

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

Gravitational orbit (370 obs.) with 0 < 1/aori < 10-4 AU-1


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 16 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]
16 C/1993 Q1 Mueller
weighting
+6.62 ± 2.04 -283.61 ± 2.04
1994 03 29
-62.43 ± 2.04 0.97 +12.24 ± 6.15 -231.90 ± 16.12
1994 03 29
-408.00 ± 23.40 0.92 3.829 ± 0.336
0.8638 ± 0.1276
0.4546 ± 0.1860


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 orbits, at previous perihelion for the returning VCs :

1993q1amz.png
Past, gravitational, all VCs at the escape border.


1993q1nmz.png
Past, nongravitational,asynchronic.
1993q1nmsz.png
Past, nongravitational,synchronic.
1993q1nmsez.png
Past, nongravitational,synchronic,
35 outstanding VCs excluded.


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

1993q1apz.png
Future, gravitational.
1993q1npsz.png
Future, nongravitational.