3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)

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  "designation": "C/2025 N1 (ATLAS)",
  "epoch": "2460889.5",
  "elements": {
    "q": 1.36,
    "e": 6.14,
    "i": 175,
    "omega": 128,
    "node": 322,
    "M": -643,
    "tp": 2460977.982
  },
  "source": "JPL SBDB API - https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.api?des=C%2F2025%20N1&phys-par=1 (retrieved 2025-11-30T20:09:16.092Z)",
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        "sigma": "0.8",
        "title": "comet total magnitude",
        "name": "M1",
        "ref": "34",
        "desc": "absolute magnitude of comet and coma (i.e. total)",
        "units": null,
        "notes": "2 parameter fit from 632 observations, autocmod 3.0g",
        "value": "12.4"
      },
      {
        "ref": "34",
        "units": null,
        "desc": "comet total magnitude slope parameter",
        "title": "comet total magnitude slope",
        "sigma": null,
        "name": "K1",
        "value": "4.5",
        "notes": "autocmod 3.0g"
      }
    ],
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    "orbit": {
      "producer": "Davide Farnocchia",
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      "n_del_obs_used": null,
      "comment": "Nongravitational accels. using g(r) = (1 au/ r)^2 for CO2",
      "soln_date": "2025-11-27 10:48:05",
      "moid_jup": "0.247",
      "sb_used": "SB441-N16",
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          "units": null,
          "label": "e",
          "name": "e",
          "title": "eccentricity",
          "sigma": "7.9e-05",
          "value": "6.14"
        },
        {
          "units": "au",
          "label": "a",
          "sigma": "2e-06",
          "title": "semi-major axis",
          "name": "a",
          "value": "-0.264"
        },
        {
          "name": "q",
          "title": "perihelion distance",
          "sigma": "1.1e-05",
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        {
          "label": "i",
          "units": "deg",
          "name": "i",
          "sigma": "1.9e-05",
          "title": "inclination; angle with respect to x-y ecliptic plane",
          "value": "175"
        },
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          "value": "322",
          "units": "deg",
          "label": "node",
          "name": "om",
          "sigma": "0.0003",
          "title": "longitude of the ascending node"
        },
        {
          "value": "128",
          "title": "argument of perihelion",
          "sigma": "0.00026",
          "name": "w",
          "label": "peri",
          "units": "deg"
        },
        {
          "value": "-643",
          "name": "ma",
          "sigma": "0.0067",
          "title": "mean anomaly",
          "label": "M",
          "units": "deg"
        },
        {
          "title": "time of perihelion passage",
          "sigma": "0.00011",
          "name": "tp",
          "label": "tp",
          "units": "TDB",
          "value": "2460977.982"
        },
        {
          "name": "per",
          "sigma": null,
          "title": "sidereal orbital period",
          "label": "period",
          "units": "d",
          "value": null
        },
        {
          "value": "7.27",
          "label": "n",
          "units": "deg/d",
          "name": "n",
          "sigma": "8.5e-05",
          "title": "mean motion"
        },
        {
          "name": "ad",
          "title": "aphelion distance",
          "sigma": null,
          "label": "Q",
          "units": "au",
          "value": null
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      "last_obs": "2025-11-27",
      "data_arc": "196",
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          "value": "7.677e-08",
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          "desc": "non-gravitational radial acceleration parameter",
          "sigma": "2.114E-8",
          "title": "non-grav. radial accel.",
          "kind": "EST",
          "name": "A1"
        },
        {
          "desc": "non-gravitational transverse acceleration parameter",
          "units": "au/d^2",
          "name": "A2",
          "kind": "EST",
          "sigma": "2.469E-8",
          "title": "non-grav. transverse accel.",
          "value": "5.097e-08",
          "n": 2
        },
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          "n": 3,
          "value": "-3.581e-09",
          "title": "non-grav. normal accel.",
          "sigma": "1.507E-9",
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          "name": "A3",
          "desc": "non-gravitational normal acceleration parameter",
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        },
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          "n": 0,
          "value": "1.",
          "name": "ALN",
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          "title": "non-grav. model exp. k",
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          "units": null,
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          "units": null,
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          "title": "non-grav. model exp. m",
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          "value": "2.",
          "n": 0
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        },
        {
          "desc": "normalizing distance, au [default 2.808 au]",
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          "kind": "SET",
          "sigma": null,
          "title": "normalizing distance",
          "name": "R0",
          "value": "1.",
          "n": 0
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      "rms": "0.4",
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        "name": "Hyperbolic Comet"
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      "fullname": "C/2025 N1 (ATLAS)",
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  },
  "generated": "2025-11-30T20:09:16.094Z"
}