C/1911 S3 Beljawsky
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Comet C/1911 S3 was discovered on 29 September 1911 by Sergei Ivanovich Beljawsky (Simeis Observatorym Crimea, Ukraine), that is 11 days before its perihelion passage, and it was last seen on 17 February 1912 [Kronk, Cometography: Volume 3].
This comet made its closest approach to the Earth on 7 October 1907 (0.969 au), that is three days before its perihelion passage.
Solutions given here are based on data spanning over 0.386 yr in a range of heliocentric distances from 0.462 au through perihelion (0.303 au) to 2.549 au.
Pure gravitational orbit determined from all available positional measurements (162 observations) give 2a-class orbit similarly as in Minor Planet Center (66 obs. used, the same arc of data; see https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search).Using the purely gravitational model of motion the original barycentric orbit is hyperbolic; similar type of solution was obtained by Marsden, Sekanina and Everhart (1978, see also MPC).
It was possible to determine the non-gravitational orbit for C/1911 S3 (preferred orbit); the decrease of RMS is noticeable (from 2.35 arcsec to 2.10 arcs, see below) though only radial non-gravitational parameter was determined. The derived NG solution give original barycentric 1/a shifted towards significanly larger values, that is to considerably smaller semimajor axis. According to this NG solution C/1911 S3 have nominal orbit with semimajor axis of about 1300 au.; however, the accuracy of this NG solution is very poor (orbit of 2b-class, see preferred orbit).
This Oort spike comet suffers rather small planetary perturbations during its passage through the planetary system.
More details in Królikowska et al. 2014.
This comet made its closest approach to the Earth on 7 October 1907 (0.969 au), that is three days before its perihelion passage.
Solutions given here are based on data spanning over 0.386 yr in a range of heliocentric distances from 0.462 au through perihelion (0.303 au) to 2.549 au.
Pure gravitational orbit determined from all available positional measurements (162 observations) give 2a-class orbit similarly as in Minor Planet Center (66 obs. used, the same arc of data; see https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search).Using the purely gravitational model of motion the original barycentric orbit is hyperbolic; similar type of solution was obtained by Marsden, Sekanina and Everhart (1978, see also MPC).
It was possible to determine the non-gravitational orbit for C/1911 S3 (preferred orbit); the decrease of RMS is noticeable (from 2.35 arcsec to 2.10 arcs, see below) though only radial non-gravitational parameter was determined. The derived NG solution give original barycentric 1/a shifted towards significanly larger values, that is to considerably smaller semimajor axis. According to this NG solution C/1911 S3 have nominal orbit with semimajor axis of about 1300 au.; however, the accuracy of this NG solution is very poor (orbit of 2b-class, see preferred orbit).
This Oort spike comet suffers rather small planetary perturbations during its passage through the planetary system.
More details in Królikowska et al. 2014.
| solution description | ||
|---|---|---|
| number of observations | 162 | |
| data interval | 1911 09 29 – 1912 02 17 | |
| data type | perihelion within the observation arc (FULL) | |
| data arc selection | entire data set (STD) | |
| range of heliocentric distances | 0.46 au – 0.30 au (perihelion) – 2.55 au | |
| detectability of NG effects in the comet's motion | comet with determinable NG~orbit | |
| type of model of motion | GR - gravitational orbit | |
| data weighting | YES | |
| number of residuals | 246 | |
| RMS [arcseconds] | 2.35 | |
| orbit quality class | 2a | |
| orbital elements (barycentric ecliptic J2000) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Epoch | 2209 07 20 | |
| perihelion date | 1911 10 11.59694816 | ± 0.00054812 |
| perihelion distance [au] | 0.30043610 | ± 0.00000079 |
| eccentricity | 0.99997575 | ± 0.00001106 |
| argument of perihelion [°] | 71.589527 | ± 0.000386 |
| ascending node [°] | 89.279608 | ± 0.000422 |
| inclination [°] | 96.563646 | ± 0.000553 |
| reciprocal semi-major axis [10-6 au-1] | 80.70 | ± 36.80 |
| file containing 5001 VCs swarm |
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| 1911s3a1.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.