167P/CINEOS
Sign in to save167P/CINEOS, also known as '''''', is a large periodic comet and active, grey centaur, approximately in diameter, orbiting the Sun outside the orbit of Saturn. It was discovered on August 10, 2004, by astronomers with the CINEOS survey at Gran Sasso in Italy. It is one of only a handful known Chiron-type comets.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Category:Chiron-type comets
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 66.17
- Orbital period
- 23688.45948205753
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- discoverer or inventor
- Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
- time of discovery or invention
- 2004-08-10
- provisional designation
- 167P/2004 PY42
- albedo
- 0.053
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2700193033402064
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 16.14205890169403
- periapsis
- 11.78339140258203
- apoapsis
- 20.50072640080603
- orbital inclination
- 19.12660376408597
- longitude of ascending node
- 295.837027398652
- argument of periapsis
- 343.6457775778229
- mean anomaly
- 16.52184361854798
- time of periapsis
- 2452009.3416024256
- epoch
- April 1, 2004
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167P/CINEOS, also known as '''''', is a large periodic comet and active, grey centaur, approximately in diameter, orbiting the Sun outside the orbit of Saturn. It was discovered on August 10, 2004, by astronomers with the CINEOS survey at Gran Sasso in Italy. It is one of only a handful known Chiron-type comets.
The comet nucleus (~66 km) is roughly half the size of (Bernardinelli–Bernstein) and it has a similar perihelion point just outside the orbit of Saturn.
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