› Forums › Comets › Terry Lovejoy and TJL006 › Well done for getting on to
12 March 2017 at 5:25 pm
#578016
Nick James
Participant
Well done for getting on to Terry’s latest so quickly. It looks like it is heading for perihelion sometime around April 23rd.
Orbital elements: TJL006
Perihelion 2017 Apr 23.983223 +/- 0.434 TT = 23:35:50 (JD 2457867.483223)
Epoch 2017 Mar 12.0 TT = JDT 2457824.5 Earth MOID: 0.0106 Find_Orb
M 359.08845 +/- 0.6
n 0.02120705 +/- 0.0207 Peri. 88.82430 +/- 1.1
a 12.9265452 +/- 8.4 Node 222.71050 +/- 0.34
e 0.9622537 +/- 0.0245 Incl. 87.87017 +/- 0.10
P 46.48 H 14.7 G 0.15 U 10.1
q 0.48792827 +/- 0.00425 Q 25.3651622 +/- 71.1
From 88 observations 2017 Mar. 9-12; mean residual 0″.70