Bouvard-Herschel is a comet in the Parabolic comet orbit class. Its closest approach to the Sun is 0.53 AU.
Orbital elements
- Eccentricity
- 1
- Inclination
- 129.43°
- Perihelion
- 0.525 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 332.09°
- Argument of periapsis
- 279.68°
- Epoch · J2000
- JD 2377591.11400 (perihelion)
- Orbit class · PAR
- Parabolic comet
Orbit quality
- Observations used
- 12
- Data arc
- 15 days
- First observed
- 15 August 1797
- Last observed
- 30 August 1797
Discovery & classification
Also known as 1797 P1
Named
Sources
- orbital elements: JPL SBDB