Nongravitational nominal solution
Observational arc: 1997 05 05 - 1999 10 09 Number of observations: 1446 RMS: 0.53 arcsec (2863 residuals used, 1.0% rejected residuals )
Heliocentric osculating orbit
Epoch Perihelion time q e ω Ω i
1998 03 08 19980310.442478 3.05109435 1.00056658 122.674220 148.844627 91.273390
± 0.000111 0.00000118 0.00000179 0.000028 0.000006 0.000006
NG parameters:
A1 = (292.74 ± 6.9)×10-8 AU/day2
A2 = (-50.389 ± 6.4)×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
1695 12 01 19980311.421737 3.05072071 0.99986383 122.722824 149.494233 91.236407
± 0.000238 0.00000158 0.00000270 0.000065 0.000007 0.000005
1/aori = ( +44.64 ± 0.88)×10-6 AU-1
Barycentric nominal future orbit (at 250 AU from the Sun)
Epoch Perihelion time q e ω Ω i
2300 02 13 19980311.767612 3.03930973 0.99995526 122.510722 149.502632 91.247360
± 0.000278 0.00000167 0.00000277 0.000075 0.000010 0.000006
1/afut = (+14.72 ± 0.91)×10-6 AU-1
In the 17th edition of the Catalogue of Cometary orbits (2008):
Gravitational orbit (1328 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 19 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] | |
| 19 | C/1997 J2 Meunier-Dupouy weighting | +38.83 ± 0.57 | -201.82 ± 0.56 1998 03 08 | -2.72 ± 0.57 | 0.67 | +44.64 ± 0.88 | -185.70 ± 0.59 1998 03 08 | +14.72 ± 0.91 | 0.53 | 292.74 ± 6.92 -50.39 ± 6.35 |
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 :
Past, gravitational, asynchronous.
Past, gravitational, synchronous.
Past, nongravitational, asynchronous.
Past, nongravitational, synchronous.
Future orbits, at next perihelion for the returning VCs :
Future, gravitational, all VCs at the escape border.
Future, nongravitational, asynchronous.
Future, nongravitational, synchronous.
