136P/Mueller
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136P/Mueller, also known as Mueller 3, is a periodic comet in the Solar System.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 3144.785811508577
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- discoverer or inventor
- Jean Mueller
- time of discovery or invention
- 1990-09-24
- provisional designation
- 1990 XIII
- absolute magnitude
- 7.2
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2915819369171432
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.200765414434092
- periapsis
- 2.975898098358854
- apoapsis
- 5.425632730509331
- orbital inclination
- 9.415533385198206
- longitude of ascending node
- 137.4689521370854
- argument of periapsis
- 225.3034679345716
- mean anomaly
- 257.3694792443636
- time of periapsis
- 2457540.0305708335
- epoch
- December 17, 2013
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136P/Mueller, also known as Mueller 3, is a periodic comet in the Solar System.
== Observational history == Jean Mueller discovered the comet on exposed photographic plates taken by the Palomar Observatory on the night of 24 September 1990. At the time, it was a diffuse 18th-magnitude object in the constellation Cetus. Within a couple of days after discovery, Harold Holt found precovery images taken as early as 17 September. Orbital calculations by Edward L. G. Bowell and Daniel W. E. Green later indicated that Mueller's new find is a periodic comet.
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