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Comet 19P/Borrelly


Named after Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly, who discovered the comet on December 28, 1904 at Marseilles, France.

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ClassificationJupiter-family Comet
Notesvisited by the space craft Deep Space 1 on September 21, 2002

Osculating Orbital Elements
Epoch2452440,5
Semi major axis3,6099 AU
Period [Julian yrs]6,859 Julian years
Inclination30,324 °
Eccentricity0,6238
Lon. of ascending node75,422 °
Argument of perihelion353,359 °
Passage of perihelion2001-Sep-14.696813
Aphelion distance5,8617 AU
Mean anomaly39,274 °

Physical Data
Radius2,40 km
Total magnitude (M1)4
Total magnitude slope (k1)19,5

Discovery Circumstances
DiscovererAlphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly
Discovered1904-12-28

Data File
Data File Name19P_Borrelly.aed
Data File Date2006-12-22
Data File Size2714 kB
Covered Period1800,00 - 2100,00