157P/Tritton
Sign in to save157P/Tritton is a periodic comet with a 6-year orbital period. Fragment B was first observed on 21 August 2022.
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 157P/Tritton
- Comet.image
- 157P 2022-09-05 image ZTF-sso-615-zr-fov-4.7arcmin.png
- Comet.caption
- Comet 157P/Tritton on 5 September 2022 by ZTF with fragment B visible
- Comet.discoverer
- Keith Tritton
- Comet.discovery_date
- February 11, 1978
- Comet.designations
- 1977 XIII
- Comet.epoch
- 2023-02-25
- Comet.semimajor
- 3.545 AU
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.572 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 5.519 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.5566
- Comet.period
- 6.675 a
- Comet.inclination
- 12.42°
- Comet.last_p
- 2022-Sep-09June 10, 2016February 20, 2010
- Comet.next_p
- 2028-Mar-07 (B)2029-May-18
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- near-Earth object
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2258.102281246452
- Image
- 157P 2022-09-05 image ZTF-sso-615-zr-fov-4.7arcmin.png
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1978-02-11
- provisional designation
- 1978d
- absolute magnitude
- 15.2
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.6274561268639955
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.368450128126689
- periapsis
- 1.254895457197787
- apoapsis
- 5.48200479905559
- orbital inclination
- 11.1826600533715
- longitude of ascending node
- 289.4272532912491
- argument of periapsis
- 157.4419548833936
- mean anomaly
- 213.7954210697004
- time of periapsis
- 2459793.569147809
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Observational history
- References
- External links
157P/Tritton is a periodic comet with a 6-year orbital period. Fragment B was first observed on 21 August 2022.
== Observational history == Keith Tritton (U. K. Schmidt Telescope Unit, Coonabarabran) discovered this comet on a deep IIIa-J exposure made with the 122-cm Schmidt telescope on 1978 February 11.66.
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