Nongravitational nominal solution
Observational arc: 2003 05 28 - 2006 11 17 Number of observations: 3658 RMS: 0.54 arcsec (7233 residuals used, 2.8% rejected residuals )
Heliocentric osculating orbit at the standard epoch close to perihelion time (the same as in MWC08)
Epoch Perihelion time q e ω Ω i
2004 10 13 20041013.716907 1.02362173 1.00030741 198.440524 18.675231 134.252834
± 0.000018 0.00000024 0.00000100 0.000015 0.000013 0.000005
NG parameters:
A1 = ( 0.75404 ± 0.01878)×10-8 AU/day2
A2 = (-0.39375 ± 0.00615)×10-8 AU/day2
A3 = (-0.09744 ± 0.00473)×10-8 AU/day2
Heliocentric osculating orbit at the epoch close to the discovery date (used as starting orbit in this investigation)
Epoch Perihelion time q e ω Ω i
2003 05 01 20041013.697087 1.02406282 1.00043474 198.404148 18.651645 134.247398
± 0.000026 0.00000050 0.00000056 0.000038 0.000009 0.000003
NG parameters:
A1 = ( 0.75404 ± 0.01878)×10-8 AU/day2
A2 = (-0.39375 ± 0.00615)×10-8 AU/day2
A3 = (-0.09744 ± 0.00473)×10-8 AU/day2
Barycentric nominal original orbit (at 250 AU from the Sun)
Epoch Perihelion time q e ω Ω i
1706 03 19 20041013.574168 1.02054069 0.99996864 198.554398 19.364915 134.285075
± 0.000048 0.00000051 0.00000055 0.000036 0.000010 0.000009
1/aori = (+30.73 ± 0.54)×10-6 AU-1
Barycentric nominal future orbit (at 250 AU from the Sun)
Epoch Perihelion time q e ω Ω i
2301 07 18 20041013.152053 1.02157701 1.00012914 198.404326 19.428435 134.221523
± 0.000038 0.00000052 0.00000083 0.000043 0.000009 0.000010
1/afut = (-126.41 ± 0.81)×10-6 AU-1
In the 17th edition of the Catalogue of Cometary orbits (2008):
Gravitational orbit (2244 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 25 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] | |
| 25 | C/2003 K4 LINEAR weighting | +32.08 ± 0.16 | -423.17 ± 0.16 2003 05 01 | -186.23 ± 0.16 | 0.62 | +30.73 ± 0.54 | -424.53 ± 0.54 2003 05 01 | -126.41 ± 0.81 | 0.54 | 0.75404 ± 0.01878 -0.39375 ± 0.00615 -0.09744 ± 0.00473 |
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 :
Past, gravitational, asynchronous.
Past, gravitational, synchronous.
Past, nongravitational, asynchronous.
Past, nongravitational, synchronous.
Future orbits, at the escape border (no returning VCs) :
Future, gravitational.
Future, nongravitational.
