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 (barycentric ecliptic J2000)
Epoch 1722 04 24
perihelion date 2021 03 11.48367927 ± 0.00019088
perihelion distance [au] 1.32004793 ± 0.00000084
eccentricity 0.99998165 ± 0.00000287
argument of perihelion [°] 186.708638 ± 0.000047
ascending node [°] 280.133389 ± 0.000036
inclination [°] 29.774794 ± 0.000009
reciprocal semi-major axis [10-6 au-1] 13.90 ± 2.17
file containing 5001 VCs swarm
2020n1n5.bmi
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.