Daniel is a comet in the Comet orbit class. Its orbit takes it from 0.51 AU to 830.6 AU from the Sun; one orbit takes 8,471.3 years. Orbit from the JPL solution of 3 May 2021.
Where is it now
- Distance from Sun
- 131.076 AU
- True anomaly
- 173.42°
- Distance from Earth
- 131.831 AU
- As of
- 25 October 2026
Two-body Kepler propagation — accurate to ~0.1% for major planets over decades, less so for highly-perturbed bodies. Use JPL Horizons for high precision.
In the sky
- Right ascension
- 16h 46m 57s
- Declination
- -13° 50′ 19″
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Distance from Earth
- 131.83 AU
- Elongation from the Sun
- 40.26° — near the Sun — look low at dusk or dawn
Visible from both hemispheres.
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Two-body approximation, good to about a degree for the planets — enough to find the constellation and know whether it is up.
Orbital elements
- Semi-major axis
- 415.554 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.9988
- Inclination
- 8.96°
- Orbital period
- 8,471.3 years
- Perihelion
- 0.512 AU
- Aphelion
- 830.596 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 144.27°
- Argument of periapsis
- 294.47°
- Epoch · J2000
- 2417845.5
- Orbit class · COM
- Comet
- Earth MOID · 22.7 LD
- 0.0584 AU
- Tisserand (Jupiter)
- 0.889
Orbit quality
- Observations used
- 173
- Data arc
- 344 days
- First observed
- 17 June 1907
- Last observed
- 26 May 1908
- Residual RMS
- 1.06 ″
- Solution · Otto Matic
- 3 May 2021
Discovery & classification
Also known as 1907 L2
Sources
- orbital elements: JPL SBDB