171P/Spahr
Sign in to save171P/Spahr is a periodic comet in the Solar System. 171P/Spahr was recovered on 20–24 October 2011 at apparent magnitude 20.6 using the Faulkes Telescope South. 171P/Spahr is peaked at about magnitude 18 in 2012.
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Within Vinony's link graph, 171P/Spahr is referenced by 65 other articles, and connects out to comet, C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) and Tempel 1.
Vinony files it under Comets in 2019, JPL Small-Body Database ID same as Wikidata and Jupiter-family comets.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2450.37210303322
- Image
- 171P 2019-01-24 image ZTF-sso-559-zr-fov-3.5arcmin.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Timothy B. Spahr
- time of discovery or invention
- 1998-11-16
- provisional designation
- 171P/1998 W1
- absolute magnitude
- 12.2
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.5020210572590079
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.557042670751964
- periapsis
- 1.771332348465658
- apoapsis
- 5.34275299303827
- orbital inclination
- 21.93636624712738
- longitude of ascending node
- 101.7081664638199
- argument of periapsis
- 347.1878637277071
- mean anomaly
- 269.2411652500624
- time of periapsis
- 2458497.258102153
- epoch
- May 6, 2017
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171P/Spahr is a periodic comet in the Solar System. 171P/Spahr was recovered on 20–24 October 2011 at apparent magnitude 20.6 using the Faulkes Telescope South. 171P/Spahr is peaked at about magnitude 18 in 2012.
During the 1999 passage, the comet brightened to about magnitude 13.5.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “171P/Spahr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.