Gonzalez is a comet in the Comet orbit class. Its orbit takes it from 2.33 AU to 7,192.8 AU from the Sun; one orbit takes 215,785.1 years. Orbit from the JPL solution of 15 April 2021.
Where is it now
- Distance from Sun
- 69.334 AU
- True anomaly
- 158.96°
- Distance from Earth
- 69.776 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
- 09h 45m 08s
- Declination
- -06° 01′ 33″
- Constellation
- Sextans
- Distance from Earth
- 69.77 AU
- Elongation from the Sun
- 63.73° — well clear of the Sun
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
- 3,597.566 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.9994
- Inclination
- 107.14°
- Orbital period
- 215,785.1 years
- Perihelion
- 2.334 AU
- Aphelion
- 7,192.799 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 143.97°
- Argument of periapsis
- 181.61°
- Epoch · J2000
- 2444823.5
- Orbit class · COM
- Comet
- Earth MOID · 514.2 LD
- 1.3214 AU
- Tisserand (Jupiter)
- -0.557
Orbit quality
- Observations used
- 20
- Data arc
- 151 days
- First observed
- 29 June 1981
- Last observed
- 27 November 1981
- Residual RMS
- 0.66 ″
- Solution · Otto Matic
- 15 April 2021
Discovery & classification
Also known as 1981 M1
Sources
- visual properties: JPL SBDB (lookup)
- visual properties: JPL SBDB (lookup)
- orbital elements: JPL SBDB