115P/Maury
Sign in to saveComet Maury, also known as 115P/Maury, is a Jupiter-family comet with an 8.83-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of nine comets discovered by French astronomer, Alain J. Maury.
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 115P/Maury
- Comet.image
- 115P_2020-07-27_image_ZTF-sso-436-zr-fov-3.5_arcmin.png
- Comet.caption
- Maury's Comet photographed from the Zwicky Transient Facility in 27 July 2020.
- Comet.discoverer
- Alain J. Maury
- Comet.discovery_site
- Palomar Observatory
- Comet.discovery_date
- 16 August 1985
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1985 Q1, P/1994 J1
- Comet.epoch
- 25 February 2023 (JD 2460000.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 35.39 years
- Comet.obs
- 1,435
- Comet.perihelion
- 2.059 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 6.484 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 4.272 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.51796
- Comet.period
- 8.83 years
- Comet.inclination
- 11.677°
- Comet.asc_node
- 176.01°
- Comet.arg_peri
- 121.00°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 2.22
- Orbital period
- 3224.084474215558
- Image
- 115P 2020-07-27 image ZTF-sso-436-zr-fov-3.5 arcmin.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Alain Maury
- time of discovery or invention
- 1985-08-16
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.5182955789513104
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.271089350627372
- periapsis
- 2.057402622891182
- apoapsis
- 6.484776078363563
- orbital inclination
- 11.66972861001243
- periapsis date (DEPRECATED)
- 2020-07-29
- provisional designation
- 1985 VI
- absolute magnitude
- 13.0
- longitude of ascending node
- 176.0779968908898
- argument of periapsis
- 121.1138086020009
- mean anomaly
- 128.7393187592088
- time of periapsis
- 2455839.537669909
- epoch
- December 1, 2014
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Observational history
- Orbit
- Physical characteristics
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Comet Maury, also known as 115P/Maury, is a Jupiter-family comet with an 8.83-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of nine comets discovered by French astronomer, Alain J. Maury.
== Observational history == Alain J. Maury discovered the comet while examining the photographic plates taken by James M. Schombert on the night of 16 August 1985. At the time, the comet was a diffuse 16th-magnitude object with a short tail located on the constellation Aquarius. Multiple follow-up observations from their colleagues at the Palomar Observatory between 20 and 23 August later confirmed its existence.
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