Kiess is a comet in the Comet orbit class. Its orbit takes it from 0.68 AU to 366.63 AU from the Sun; one orbit takes 2,489 years. Orbit from the JPL solution of 22 April 2021.
Where is it now
- Distance from Sun
- 122.523 AU
- True anomaly
- 173°
- Distance from Earth
- 123.319 AU
- As of
- 24 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
- 14h 38m 09s
- Declination
- -47° 33′ 28″
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Distance from Earth
- 123.32 AU
- Elongation from the Sun
- 36.23° — near the Sun — look low at dusk or dawn
Favours the southern hemisphere; low or below the horizon from far north.
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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
- 183.658 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.9963
- Inclination
- 148.42°
- Orbital period
- 2,489 years
- Perihelion
- 0.684 AU
- Aphelion
- 366.632 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 158.67°
- Argument of periapsis
- 110.37°
- Epoch · J2000
- 2419247.5
- Orbit class · COM
- Comet
- Earth MOID · 1.1 LD
- 0.0028 AU
- Tisserand (Jupiter)
- -0.844
Orbit quality
- Observations used
- 86
- Data arc
- 71 days
- First observed
- 9 July 1911
- Last observed
- 18 September 1911
- Residual RMS
- 0.77 ″
- Solution · Otto Matic
- 22 April 2021
Discovery & classification
Also known as 1911 N1
Sources
- orbital elements: JPL SBDB