Schedule Observations Schedule Spectroscopic Observations
Type Comet (Jupiter Family)
Status Actively Following
Characterization Target
Source LOOK Project
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Last Update: 2025-Aug-19 19:03
Orbital Elements
MPC Comet
Epoch of elements (MJD)
60800.0 May 5, 2025
Orbital inclination in deg 12.20174
Longitude of Ascending Node (deg) 110.06411
Arg of perihelion (deg) 216.77298
Eccentricity 0.4265581
Perihelion distance (AU) 2.0065828
Epoch of perihelion March 2, 2025, 3:21 p.m.
Epoch of perihelion (MJD) 60736.63972
Total Magnitude (M1) 8.9
Slope Parameter (k1) 17.0
Physical Parameters
Rotation Period Jewitt & Sheppard (2004) AJ, 127, 1784-1790.
29.0 h +/- 0.04
Diameter Lamy,P.L.;Toth,I.;Fernandez,Y.R.;Weaver,H.A.; (2004) Comets II, pp. 223-264
5.74 km
PC autocmod 3.0f

K253/18
0.03
K2 autocmod 3.0f

K253/18
5.0
M2 from 794 observations, autocmod 3.0f

K253/18
13.4 +/- 0.6
K1 autocmod 3.0f

K253/18
17.0
M1 2 parameter fit from 733 observations, autocmod 3.0f

K253/18
8.9 +/- 0.8
Phase Slope MPC Default
4.0
Follow-up Details
Number of observations 1088
Arc length (days) 2731.00
Time since last observation (days) 9.86
Spectroscopy Details
Known Taxonomies None