Candy
C/1960 Y1 (Candy)
Where is it now
- Distance from Sun
- 17.021 AU
- True anomaly
- 161.31°
- As of
- 17 September 2026
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In the sky
- Right ascension
- 14h 40m 46s
- Declination
- -40° 48′ 13″
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Distance from Earth
- 17.53 AU
- Elongation from the Sun
- 58.54° — 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
- 15.025 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.9303
- Inclination
- 151.17°
- Orbital period
- 58.24 years
- Perihelion
- 1.047 AU
- Aphelion
- 29.004 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 177.29°
- Argument of periapsis
- 138.76°
- Epoch · J2000
- 2437308.5
- Orbit class · HTC
- Halley-type comet
- Earth MOID · 59.2 LD
- 0.1522 AU
- Tisserand (Jupiter)
- -0.746
Orbit quality
Orbit very uncertain — the object may be effectively lost (uncertainty code 9).
- Observations used
- 8
- Data arc
- 8 days
- First observed
- 5 January 1961
- Last observed
- 13 January 1961
- Residual RMS
- 0.14 ″
- Solution · Otto Matic
- 15 April 2021
Discovery & classification
Also known as 1960 Y1
Sources
- orbital elements: JPL SBDB