217P/LINEAR (Record n° 59)
Orbital period : 7.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2009 Dec 11 22h28 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.5 Aperture radius used for m2 7 " r (dist/Sun) 1.677 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.726 AU MPC report COD B83
CON Thierry NOEL [thierrynoel1@laposte.net]
OBS T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.20-m f/5.0 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2009.12.13 14:30:55
AC2 thierrynoel1@laposte.net
NET USNO-B1.0
0217P C2009 12 11.92721 05 57 43.86 +03 06 48.0 15.5 N B83
0217P C2009 12 11.93578 05 57 43.26 +03 06 56.3 15.5 N B83
0217P C2009 12 11.94434 05 57 42.64 +03 07 04.8 15.5 N B83
Instrument Newton Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 1000 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5 Filter(s) None Camera SBIG ST7-XME Sensor CCD Exposure total time 1680 s Exposure details 14x2mn Observatory MPC code B83 Location Gieres 38610 France Reference stars catalog USNOB1.0 Used softwares Astrometrica Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.86 "/pix URL for more information or pictures http://thierrynoel.free.fr/Astronomie/Cometes Observation submission date 2010 Feb 10 00h00m00s