144P/Kushida

144P/Kushida is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by Yoshio Kushida in January 1994. This was the first comet discovery of 1994 and his second discovery within a month. It last came to perihelion on 25 January 2024, and brightened to about magnitude 10.

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Comet.name: 144P/Kushida
Comet.image: 144PKushidaHunterWilson.jpg
Comet.caption: Comet Kushida photographed by Hunter Wilson on 16 January 2009
Comet.discoverer: Yoshio Kushida
Comet.discovery_site: Yatsugatake, Japan
Comet.discovery_date: 8 January 1994
Comet.mpc_name: P/1994 A1, P/2000 O2
Comet.designations: 1993 XX, 1994a
Comet.epoch: 21 November 2025 (JD 2461000.5)
Comet.observation_arc: 30.41 years
Comet.earliest_precovery_date: 7 January 1994
Comet.obs: 5,919

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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 0.9em;" |+144P/Kushida closest Mars approach on 2119-May-18 ! Date & time ofclosest approach ! Mars distance(AU) ! Sun distance(AU) ! Velocitywrt Mars(km/s) ! Velocitywrt Sun(km/s) ! Uncertaintyregion(3-sigma) ! Reference |- | 2119-May-17 11:19 ± 13 minutes || || || 13.6 || 28.6 || ± 13 thousand km || Horizons |}