objects at such high eccentricity, the Sun's barycentric coordinates are more stable than heliocentric coordinates. Using JPL Horizons, the barycentric orbital elements for epoch 2050 generate a semi-major axis of 2050 AU and a period of approximately 92,700 years. Gallery See also Other comets with the name McNaught Lists of comets List of interstellar comets List of comets by type List of non-periodic comets List of periodic comets Notes Solution using the Solar System Barycenter Read osculating orbit for more details about heliocentric unperturbed two-body solutions References External links C/2006 P1 at Cometary Science Center Info and gallery, from skytonight Comet McNaught in Perth skies Current hotshots of comet, from NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory website Animation of recent images within LASCO C3's FOV McNaught in STEREO HI1a Montage McNaught in STEREO HI1a Comet McNaught photo gallery from Southern Hemisphere NASA Astronomy Pictures of the Day: 5 January – Comet McNaught Heads for the Sun 9 January – McNaught Now Brightest Comet in Decades 13 January – Comet Over Krakow 15 January – Comet McNaught Over Catalonia 17 January – Comet McNaught from New STEREO Satellite 18 January – Southern Comet 19 January – McNaught's Matinee 20 January – SOHO: Comet McNaught Movie 22 January – The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught 24 January – A Comet Tail Horizon 1 February – A Tail of Two Hemispheres 5 February – Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning 12 February – Comet McNaught Over New Zealand Non-periodic comets Comets visited by spacecraft 2007 in science 20060807 Great comets Oort cloud