Comet 19P/Borrelly
Named after Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly, who discovered the comet on December 28, 1904 at Marseilles, France.
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Classification | Jupiter-family Comet |
Notes | visited by the space craft Deep Space 1 on September 21, 2002 |
Osculating Orbital Elements
Epoch | 2452440,5 |
Semi major axis | 3,6099 AU |
Period [Julian yrs] | 6,859 Julian years |
Inclination | 30,324 ° |
Eccentricity | 0,6238 |
Lon. of ascending node | 75,422 ° |
Argument of perihelion | 353,359 ° |
Passage of perihelion | 2001-Sep-14.696813 |
Aphelion distance | 5,8617 AU |
Mean anomaly | 39,274 ° |
Physical Data
Radius | 2,40 km |
Total magnitude (M1) | 4 |
Total magnitude slope (k1) | 19,5 |
Discovery Circumstances
Discoverer | Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly |
Discovered | 1904-12-28 |
Data File
Data File Name | 19P_Borrelly.aed |
Data File Date | 2006-12-22 |
Data File Size | 2714 kB |
Covered Period | 1800,00 - 2100,00 |
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