C/2010 S1 LINEAR
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Comet C/2010 S1 was discovered on 21 September 2010 and next observed almost continuously by 4.8 yr in a range of heliocentric distances: 8.85 au – 5.900 au (perihelion) – 8.02 au. At the moment of discovery, it was two years and eight months before perihelion passage (see figure).

Comet had its closest approach to the Earth on 4 August 2013 (5.205 au, 2.5 months after perihelion).

NG orbit is possible to obtained using the full data arc; however uncertainties of NG parameters are notable, especially for A2 (see solutions ac and bc differing only in data weighting).

This Oort spike comet suffers a tiny planetary perturbations during its passage through the planetary system.

See also Królikowska and Dones 2023 and Królikowska and Dybczyński 2017.
solution description
number of observations 8604
data interval 2010 09 21 – 2015 07 19
data type perihelion within the observation arc (FULL)
data arc selection entire data set (STD)
range of heliocentric distances 8.85 au – 5.90 au (perihelion) – 8.02 au
type of model of motion NC - non-gravitational orbits for symmetric CO-g(r)-like function
data weighting YES
number of residuals 16913
RMS [arcseconds] 0.40
orbit quality class 1a+
orbital elements (barycentric ecliptic J2000)
Epoch 1706 06 07
perihelion date 2013 05 19.85099082 ± 0.00059164
perihelion distance [au] 5.90046805 ± 0.00000329
eccentricity 0.99985960 ± 0.00000228
argument of perihelion [°] 118.596246 ± 0.000052
ascending node [°] 93.453918 ± 0.000009
inclination [°] 125.320374 ± 0.000004
reciprocal semi-major axis [10-6 au-1] 23.79 ± 0.39
file containing 5001 VCs swarm
2010s1bc.bmi
Upper panel: 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.
Middle panel(s): O-C diagram for a given solution (sometimes in comparison to another solution available in CODE), where residuals in right ascension are shown using magenta dots and in declination by blue open circles.
Lowest panel: Relative weights for a given data set(s).
Six 2D-projections of the 6D space of original swarm including 5001 VCs. Each density map is given in logarithmic scale presented on the right in the individual panel.