Comets in 2016

short-period comet

Comet 81P/Wild, also known as Wild 2 (pronounced "vilt two") ( ), is a comet with a period of 6.4 years named after Swiss astronomer Paul Wild, who discovered it on January 6, 1978, using a 40-cm Schmidt telescope at Zimmerwald, Switzerland.

45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková is a short-period comet discovered by Minoru Honda December 3, 1948. It is named after Minoru Honda, Antonín Mrkos, and Ľudmila Pajdušáková. The object revolves around the Sun on an elliptical orbit with a period of 5.25 years. The nucleus is 1.3 kilometers in diameter. On August 19 and 20, 2011, it became the fifteenth comet detected by ground radar telescope.

144P/Kushida is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by Yoshio Kushida in January 1994. This was the first comet discovery of 1994 and his second discovery within a month. It last came to perihelion on 25 January 2024, and brightened to about magnitude 10.

comet

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size:11px; float:right; margin:2px" |- bgcolor= style="font-size: smaller;" | colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|Perihelion distanceat different epochs |- ! Epoch !! Perihelion(AU) |- | 1903 || 1.38 |- | 1916 || 1.53 |- | 1964 || 1.66 |- | 2000 || 2.16 |- | 2041 || 2.25 |}

147P/Kushida–Muramatsu is a quasi-Hilda comet discovered in 1993 by Japanese astronomers Yoshio Kushida and Osamu Muramatsu.

Comet Hartley 1, also known as 100P/Hartley, is a Jupiter family comet with a 6.35-year orbit around the Sun. It is one of 12 comets discovered by Australian astronomer, Malcolm Hartley.

Comet Arend or 50P/Arend is a periodic comet in the Solar System which was discovered on October 4, 1951. It was discovered by astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium located in the municipality of Uccle. The comet was illustrated at approximately a magnitude of 14 and also exhibited a nucleus within a coma 14 arc seconds across. It has been observed on its every subsequent apparition since discovery, with the most recent one occurred in 2024. The comet's next perihelion will be in the year 2032.

116P/Wild, also known as Wild 4, is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It fits the definition of an Encke-type comet with (TJupiter > 3; a Jupiter).

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center" |+ The Outward Migration of 43P !Year (epoch)!!2017!!2020!!2025 |- |Semi-major axis || 3.35 || 4.30 || 4.33 |- |Perihelion || 1.35 || 2.39 || 2.44 |- |Aphelion || 5.34 || 6.20 || 6.22 |}

77P/Longmore is a periodic comet in the Solar System, with a period of 6.8 years. It is the only comet discovered by Australian astronomer, Andrew Jonathan Longmore.

56P/Slaughter–Burnham is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a period of 11.54 years. It is the second of two comets co-discovered by Robert Burnham Jr. and Charles D. Slaughter.

332P/Ikeya–Murakami (P/2010 V1) is a short-period comet with period of approximately 5.4 years first identified independently by the two Japanese amateur astronomers Kaoru Ikeya and Shigeki Murakami on November 3, 2010. As 332P/Ikeya–Murakami only approaches within 1.57 AU of the Sun, roughly Mars distance from the Sun, the fragmentation events may be a result of rapid rotation. The comet was last observed in October 2020 as during the 2021 perihelion passage the comet was only 7 degrees from the Sun. The comet will next come to perihelion in January 2027 when it will have a solar elongation o

94P/Russell 4 is a periodic comet in the Solar System.

118P/Shoemaker–Levy (also known as Shoemaker–Levy 4) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy.

89P/Russell is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 7.26 years.

Comet 252P/LINEAR is a Jupiter-family comet and near-Earth object discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey on 7 April 2000.

136P/Mueller, also known as Mueller 3, is a periodic comet in the Solar System.

comet

104P/Kowal, also known as Kowal 2, is a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered by Charles T. Kowal in 1979. The orbit was confirmed after new sightings in 1991 and 1998.

226P/Pigott–LINEAR–Kowalski is a Jupiter family periodic comet with an orbital period of 7.3 years. It was discovered by Edward Pigott on 19 November 1783, but was subsequently lost, until it was recovered on 5 January 2003 by Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR). It will next come to perihelion on 27 December 2023 at about apparent magnitude 15.

333P/LINEAR is a Jupiter-family comet in an 8.7-year retrograde orbit around the Sun. Upon discovery, it was the object with the shortest known retrograde orbit. The comet was discovered by LINEAR on 4 November 2007.