173P/Mueller
Sign in to save173P/Mueller, also known as Mueller 5, is a periodic comet in the Solar System with an orbital period of 13.6 years.
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- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 4959.129601113356
- Image
- 173P 2006-10-24 Spitzer image Level-2-PBCD-IRS-PU-Blue-13.3-18.7um.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Jean Mueller
- time of discovery or invention
- 1993-11-20
- provisional designation
- 1993s
- absolute magnitude
- 12.1
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2613563901885501
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 5.691211004181917
- periapsis
- 4.203776640327578
- apoapsis
- 7.178645368036256
- orbital inclination
- 16.50550844423612
- longitude of ascending node
- 100.4965039957018
- argument of periapsis
- 29.39332259246867
- mean anomaly
- 99.91413570459669
- time of periapsis
- 2454602.1468112716
- epoch
- February 21, 2012
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173P/Mueller, also known as Mueller 5, is a periodic comet in the Solar System with an orbital period of 13.6 years.
The comet was discovered by Jean Mueller in plates exposed on 20 November 1993 as part of the second Palomar Sky Survey. The comet had an apparent magnitude of 17.5–18 and a tail about 80 arcseconds long. The comet was recovered by Eric J. Christensen in images obtained on 6 October 2005 during the Mount Lemmon Survey. The comet then han an apparent magnitude of 18–18.4.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “173P/Mueller” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.