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DaveC426913
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(unrelated to my other post about an asteroid)
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I would like to check a postulation with someone who has an orbital simulator, or a good head for orbital mechanics.
Given an object such as a comet with orbital period of about 150 years, could it have a perihelion at a distance between Mercury and Venus?
If no, what does work? Change period? Change perihelion?
2] Could we tell anything about this object's mass from its orbit and/or visual observations if we do not know its density or its albedo factor?
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I would like to check a postulation with someone who has an orbital simulator, or a good head for orbital mechanics.
Given an object such as a comet with orbital period of about 150 years, could it have a perihelion at a distance between Mercury and Venus?
If no, what does work? Change period? Change perihelion?
2] Could we tell anything about this object's mass from its orbit and/or visual observations if we do not know its density or its albedo factor?
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