237P/LINEAR (Record n° 18478)
Orbital period : 6.58 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Nov 09 18h20 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 20.5 m2 standard deviation 0.4 Aperture radius used for m2 6.4 " Tail length 0.166 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 252 ° r (dist/Sun) 3.343 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.501 AU Right ascension 00 19 49.06 h m s Declination +16 31 15.4 ° ' " MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.11.09 20:59:53
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0237P KC2017 11 09.76372 00 19 49.06 +16 31 15.4 20.5 N A77
0237P KC2017 11 09.76598 00 19 49.01 +16 31 14.5 20.0 N A77
0237P KC2017 11 09.78027 00 19 48.74 +16 31 09.4 20.9 N A77
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) L Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 19x120s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Remarks or comments Tail = 10' Observation submission date 2017 Nov 09 21h09m20s Observation modification date 2017 Nov 09 22h23m49s