Comet C/2004 B1 LINEAR

Nongravitational nominal solution


   Observational arc:        2004 01 28 - 2008 08 24  
   Number of observations:   2057  
   RMS:                      0.43 arcsec (3758 residuals used, 8.7% rejected residuals ) 

Heliocentric osculating orbit

  Epoch        Perihelion time   q             e            ω              Ω            i      
  2006 01 25   20060207.887081   1.60192826    1.00127077   327.899930    272.801920   114.096796        
                    ± 0.000034   0.00000040    0.00000112     0.000009      0.000008     0.000010         

  NG parameters:   
   A1 = ( 0.91312 ± 0.03339)×10-8 AU/day2  
   A2 = (-0.35032 ± 0.01775)×10-8 AU/day2  
   A3 = (-0.23725 ± 0.00683)×10-8 AU/day2  

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

  Epoch        Perihelion time   q             e             ω             Ω            i      
  1706 07 17   20060208.897763   1.60641136    0.99994236    327.914718   272.794963   114.147484              
                    ± 0.000074   0.00000068    0.00000110      0.000038     0.000011     0.000010         
   1/aori =  (+35.55 ± 0.72)×10-6 AU-1  

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

  Epoch        Perihelion time   q             e             ω             Ω            i      
  2300 03 25   20060208.517477   1.59866036    1.00073763    327.900232   272.924965   114.086937              
                    ± 0.000073   0.00000070    0.00000105      0.000040     0.000005     0.000010         
   1/afut = (-460.98 ± 0.68)×10-6 AU-1  

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

Gravitational orbit (974 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 26 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]
26 C/2004 B1 LINEAR
weighting
+34.64 ± 0.20 -808.68 ± 0.19
2006 01 25
-481.63 ± 0.20 0.53 +35.55 ± 0.72 -793.27 ± 0.70
2006 01 25
-460.98 ± 0.68 0.43 0.91312 ± 0.03339
-0.35032 ± 0.01775
-0.23725 ± 0.00683


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 :

2004b1amz.png
Past, gravitational, asynchronous.
2004b1amsz.png
Past, gravitational, synchronous.


2004b1nmz.png
Past, nongravitational, asynchronous.
2004b1nmsz.png
Past, nongravitational, synchronous.


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

2004b1apz.png
Future, gravitational.
2004b1npsz.png
Future, nongravitational.