158P/Kowal–LINEAR is a Jupiter-family comet with a 10.3-year orbit around the Sun. It is one of six comets discovered by American astronomer, Charles T. Kowal, and also one of several by the LINEAR program.
158P/Kowal–LINEAR is a Jupiter-family comet with a 10.3-year orbit around the Sun. It is one of six comets discovered by American astronomer, Charles T. Kowal, and also one of several by the LINEAR program.
== Observational history == === 1979 discovery and loss === In August 1979, Charles T. Kowal reported to the IAU that he had discovered a comet from photographic plates taken from the Palomar Observatory on 24 July 1979. He described it as a diffuse 19th-magnitude object with no condensation nor tail within the constellation Sagitta. Orbital calculations by Eleanor F. Helin indicated that Kowal's comet is periodic. Brian G. Marsden confirmed Helin's computations, however he also noted that it was not observed since 27 July, essentially classifying Kowal's comet as lost.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).