C/1892 Q1 Brooks
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C/1892 Q1 was discovered on 28 August 1892 by William Robert Brooks (Smith Observatory at Hobart College, Geneva, New York, USA), that is about 4 months before its perihelion passage, and it was last seen on 19 July 1893 [Kronk, Cometography: Volume 2].
This comet made its closest approach to the Earth on 12 December 1892 (2.27 au), that is about two weeks before perihelion passage.
Solutions given here are based on data spanning over 0.863 yr in a range of heliocentric distances from 2.11 au through perihelion (0.976 au) to 3.04 au.
This Oort spike comet suffers moderate planetary perturbations during its passage through the planetary system; these perturbations lead to a escape the comet from the planetary zone on hypebolic orbit (see future barycentric orbits).
See also Królikowska 2020.

solution description
number of observations 187
data interval 1892 09 01 – 1893 07 13
data type perihelion within the observation arc (FULL)
data arc selection entire data set (STD)
range of heliocentric distances 2.11 au – 0.98 au (perihelion) – 3.04 au
type of model of motion NS - non-gravitational orbits for standard g(r)
data weighting YES
number of residuals 334
RMS [arcseconds] 2.80
orbit quality class 2a
orbital elements (barycentric ecliptic J2000)
Epoch 2185 10 13
perihelion date 1892 12 28.15956401 ± 0.00108637
perihelion distance [au] 0.97762751 ± 0.00000825
eccentricity 1.00047597 ± 0.00002276
argument of perihelion [°] 252.717846 ± 0.000772
ascending node [°] 265.987063 ± 0.000186
inclination [°] 24.766253 ± 0.000149
reciprocal semi-major axis [10-6 au-1] -486.86 ± 23.28
file containing 5001 VCs swarm
1892q1n1.bpl
Time distribution of positional observations with corresponding heliocentric (red curve) and geocentric (green curve) distance at which they were taken. The horizontal dotted line shows the perihelion distance for a given comet whereas vertical dotted line — the moment of perihelion passage.
Six 2D-projections of the 6D space of future swarm including 5001 VCs. Each density map is given in logarithmic scale presented on the right in the individual panel.