116P/Wild

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).

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Comet.name: 116P/Wild
Comet.image: 116P 2022-02-26 image ZTF-sso-570-zr-fov-9.3arcmin.png
Comet.caption: Comet Wild 4 photographed by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 26 February 2022.
Comet.discoverer: Paul Wild
Comet.discovery_date: January 21, 1990
Comet.mpc_name: P/1990 B1, P/1994 V1
Comet.designations: 1990 X, 1990a, 1994vWild 4
Comet.epoch: 17 October 2024 (JD 2460600.5)
Comet.observation_arc: 34.62 years
Comet.obs: 6,425
Comet.perihelion: 2.195 AU
Comet.aphelion: 4.779 AU
Comet.semimajor: 3.487 AU
Comet.period: 6.511 years
Comet.eccentricity: 0.37401
Comet.inclination: 3.604°
Comet.asc_node: 20.965°
Comet.arg_peri: 173.18°

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Orbital period: 2375.479378940594
Image: 116P 2022-02-26 image ZTF-sso-570-zr-fov-9.3arcmin.png

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time of discovery or invention: 1990-01-21
provisional designation: 1990 X
absolute magnitude: 7.6
orbital eccentricity: 0.3722828736001055
semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.484190497174506
periapsis: 2.187086046716201
apoapsis: 4.781294947632811
orbital inclination: 3.607849159431975
longitude of ascending node: 20.99189725864992
argument of periapsis: 173.3109233954221
mean anomaly: 13.71104422684043
time of periapsis: 2457399.026936598

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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).

On 4 November 2042, the comet will pass about from 1 Ceres.