104P/Kowal
Sign in to save104P/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.
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Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1979, Comets in 2016 and Comets in 2022.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- near-Earth object
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 2.0
- Orbital period
- 2098.318940894791
- Image
- 104P 2022-02-12 image ZTF-sso-506-zg-fov-9.3arcmin.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Charles T. Kowal
- time of discovery or invention
- 1979-01-27
- provisional designation
- 1979a
- absolute magnitude
- 14.6
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.6654527191420735
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.207613623415639
- periapsis
- 1.073098415756543
- apoapsis
- 5.342128831074735
- orbital inclination
- 5.701090049412283
- longitude of ascending node
- 207.2135256417651
- argument of periapsis
- 227.2458876459766
- mean anomaly
- 342.0512077925715
- time of periapsis
- 2459591.117474042
- epoch
- September 29, 2021
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Observational history
- Orbit
- References
- External links
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.
== Observational history == In 2003, Gary Kronk and Brian Marsden noticed that an object observed by Leo Boethin in 1973 was actually 104P/Kowal. From Boethin's report, it was apparent that comet Kowal 2 had been in a short, major outburst to apparent magnitude 9.5 in 1973.
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