C/1983 O1 Cernis
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Comet C/1983 O1 was discovered by Kazimeras ?ernis (Vilnius Observatory) on 19 July 1983 (IAUC 3840), two days before its perihelion passage. The comet was last seen on 14 May 1991.
This comet made its closest approach to the Earth on 29 September 1983 (2.445 au), that was about two months after its perihelion passage.
Solutions given here are based on data spanning over 7.81 yr in a range of heliocentric distances from 3.32 au to 19.38 au.
This Oort spike comet suffers rather small planetary perturbations during its passage through the planetary system that lead to escape the comet from the planetary zone on a hyperbolic orbit (see future barycentric orbit).
See also Królikowska 2014 and Królikowska and Dybczyński 2017.

solution description
number of observations 232
data interval 1983 07 21 – 1991 05 14
data type observed only after perihelion (POST)
data arc selection entire data set (STD)
range of heliocentric distances 3.32 au – 3.32 au (perihelion) – 19.4 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 460
RMS [arcseconds] 1.11
orbit quality class 1a+
orbital elements (barycentric ecliptic J2000)
Epoch 2283 08 01
perihelion date 1983 07 22.54198413 ± 0.00089254
perihelion distance [au] 3.32059142 ± 0.00000568
eccentricity 1.00063504 ± 0.00000501
argument of perihelion [°] 186.332274 ± 0.000216
ascending node [°] 209.664489 ± 0.000035
inclination [°] 134.633027 ± 0.000037
reciprocal semi-major axis [10-6 au-1] -191.24 ± 1.51
file containing 5001 VCs swarm
1983o1a3.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.