C/2020 N1 PanSTARRS
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Comet C/2020 N1 was discovered on 3 July 2020, about 8.5 months before its perihelion passage, later a single pre-discovery observation was found from 1 July 2020. This comet was observed to 14 April 2021.

Solutions given here (NG and GR) are based on data span over 0.786 yr in a range of heliocentric distances: 3.55 au – 1.32 au (perihelion) – 1.41 au.

This Oort spike comet suffers moderate planetary perturbations during its passage through the planetary system that lead to escape the comet from the solar system on hyperbolic barycentric orbit.
solution description
number of observations 915
data interval 2020 07 01 – 2021 04 14
data type perihelion within the observation arc (FULL)
data arc selection entire data set (STD)
range of heliocentric distances 3.55 au – 1.32 au (perihelion) – 1.41 au
type of model of motion NS - non-gravitational orbits for standard g(r)
data weighting YES
number of residuals 1763
RMS [arcseconds] 0.52
orbit quality class 1b
orbital elements (heliocentric ecliptic J2000)
Epoch 2021 03 07
perihelion date 2021 03 12.22414335 ± 0.00022516
perihelion distance [au] 1.32072673 ± 0.00000250
eccentricity 1.00065736 ± 0.00000608
argument of perihelion [°] 186.769291 ± 0.000214
ascending node [°] 279.980838 ± 0.000094
inclination [°] 29.704475 ± 0.000084
reciprocal semi-major axis [10-6 au-1] -497.73 ± 4.61
non-gravitational parameters
A1 [10-8au/day2] -0.74214 ± 0.16197
A2 [10-8au/day2] 2.1354 ± 0.1267
A3 [10-8au/day2] -1.0439 ± 0.0967
m -2.15
n 5.093
k -4.6142
r0 [au] 2.808
α 0.1113