Comet Spitaler is a Jupiter-family comet with a 7.1-year orbit around the Sun. It is the only comet discovered by Austrian astronomer, Rudolf Ferdinand Spitaler.
Comet Spitaler is a Jupiter-family comet with a 7.1-year orbit around the Sun. It is the only comet discovered by Austrian astronomer, Rudolf Ferdinand Spitaler.
== Observational history == === 1890 apparition and discovery === While attempting to observe C/1890 V1 (Zona), which was just discovered about two days earlier, Rudolf Ferdinand Spitaler spotted a new comet on the night of 17 November 1890. He described it as a very nebulous object positioned very close on where Zona's Comet was predicted to be, albeit fainter than the latter. Both comets were found within the constellation Auriga.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).