C/1899 E1 Swift
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C/1899 E1 was discovered on 4 March 1899 by Lewis A. Swift (Lowe Observatory, Echo Mountain, California), that is more than a month before its perihelion passage, and it was last seen on12 August 1899 [Kronk, Cometography: Volume 2].
This comet made its closest approach to the Earth on 21 February 1899 (0.711 au), that is about 2 weeks before its discovery.
Solutions given here are based on data spanning over 0.435 yr in a range of heliocentric distances from 1.04 au through perihelion (0.327 au) to 2.39 au.
In this comet the second nucleus were observed starting from mid-May 1899; therefore, due to nucleus splitting NG solutions given here should be treated as approximate.
Original value of 1/a is negative for all solutions presented here; however, within its uncertainty of 1 sigma this comet can came from the Oort Cloud according to preferred solution (non-gravitational solutions with radial NG component).
This comet suffers very large planetary perturbations during its passage through the planetary system; these perturbations lead to escape this comet from the planetary zone on hyperbolic orbit (see future barycentric orbits).
See also Boehnhardt 2004 and Królikowska 2020.

solution description
number of observations 300
data interval 1899 03 05 – 1899 08 11
data type perihelion within the observation arc (FULL)
data arc selection entire data set (STD)
range of heliocentric distances 1.04 au – 0.33 au (perihelion) – 2.39 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 563
RMS [arcseconds] 2.80
orbit quality class 1b
orbital elements (barycentric ecliptic J2000)
Epoch 1603 02 27
perihelion date 1899 04 13.78779641 ± 0.00005779
perihelion distance [au] 0.33212026 ± 0.00000103
eccentricity 1.00002488 ± 0.00000285
argument of perihelion [°] 8.369012 ± 0.000415
ascending node [°] 26.206874 ± 0.000276
inclination [°] 146.084103 ± 0.000127
reciprocal semi-major axis [10-6 au-1] -74.92 ± 8.60
file containing 5001 VCs swarm
1899e1a1.bmi
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 original swarm including 5001 VCs. Each density map is given in logarithmic scale presented on the right in the individual panel.