C/1952 W1 Mrkos
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Comet C/1952 W1 was discovered on 28 November 1952 by Antonin Mrkos (Skalnaté Pleso Observatory, Slovakia), that is almost 2 months before its perihelion passage. It was observed until 5 September 1953 [Kronk, Cometography: Volume 4].
Comet had its closest approach to the Earth on 10 January 1953 (0.922 au), two weeks before its perihelion passage.
Original value of 1/a is negative; however, within its uncertainty of 1 sigma this comet could come from the Oort Cloud.
This comet suffers small planetary perturbations during its passage through the planetary system; these perturbations can lead to escape the comet from the planetary zone on a hyperbolic orbit (see future barycentric orbits).
See also 2011 and Królikowska 2014.

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number of observations 31
data interval 1952 12 10 – 1953 07 18
data type perihelion within the observation arc (FULL)
data arc selection entire data set (STD)
range of heliocentric distances 1.16 au – 0.78 au (perihelion) – 2.86 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 NO
number of residuals 58
RMS [arcseconds] 0.97
orbit quality class 2a
orbital elements (barycentric ecliptic J2000)
Epoch 2247 08 30
perihelion date 1953 01 25.06997935 ± 0.00022625
perihelion distance [au] 0.77671155 ± 0.00000171
eccentricity 1.00022320 ± 0.00001443
argument of perihelion [°] 253.750223 ± 0.000318
ascending node [°] 343.514480 ± 0.000241
inclination [°] 97.12077 ± 0.000276
reciprocal semi-major axis [10-6 au-1] -287.36 ± 18.58
file containing 5001 VCs swarm
1952w1a2.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.