14P/Wolf
Sign in to save14P/Wolf is a periodic comet with an 8.78-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of three comets discovered by German astronomer, Max Wolf.
Key facts
- Comet.rotation
- hours
- Comet.M1
- 15.6
- Comet.name
- 14P/Wolf
- Comet.image
- Comet Wolf u65z3002r.fits.gz sci.jpg
- Comet.caption
- 14P/Wolf imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on 17 September 2000
- Comet.discoverer
- Max Wolf
- Comet.discovery_site
- Heidelberg, Germany
- Comet.discovery_date
- 17 September 1884
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1884 S1, P/1891 J1
- Comet.epoch
- 5 May 2024 (JD 2460800.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 140.85 years
- Comet.obs
- 749
- Comet.perihelion
- 2.738 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 5.775 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 4.256 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.35669
- Comet.period
- 8.782 years
- Comet.inclination
- 27.918°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 4.66
- Orbital period
- 3196.67091615118
- Image
- Comet Wolf u65z3002r.fits.gz sci.jpg
Show 16 more facts
- discoverer or inventor
- Max Wolf
- periapsis date (DEPRECATED)
- 2017-12-01
- orbital inclination
- 27.94264107490945
- apoapsis
- 5.764898605232356
- periapsis
- 2.728789922765338
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.246844263998847
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.3574546761938718
- time of discovery or invention
- 1884-09-17
- provisional designation
- 1884c
- absolute magnitude
- 15.6
- rotation period
- 9.02
- epoch
- November 14, 2011
- longitude of ascending node
- 202.1079740686509
- argument of periapsis
- 159.1961569302005
- mean anomaly
- 111.4225804296715
- time of periapsis
- 2454890.107438161
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Observational history
- Orbit
- Physical characteristics
- Notes
- References
- External links
14P/Wolf is a periodic comet with an 8.78-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of three comets discovered by German astronomer, Max Wolf.
== Observational history == Max Wolf discovered the comet from Heidelberg, Germany on 17 September 1884, about 15 days before it passed from Earth. It was later rediscovered by, but not credited to, Ralph Copeland (Dun Echt Observatory, Aberdeen, Scotland) on September 23.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “14P/Wolf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.