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Also known as Comet Borrelly, Borrelly's Comet

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size:11px; float:right; margin:2px" |- bgcolor= style="font-size: smaller;" | colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|Perihelion distanceat recent epochs |- ! Epoch !! Perihelion(AU) |- | 2028 || 1.310 |- | 2022 || 1.306 |- | 2015 || 1.349 |- | 2008 || 1.355 |}

Key facts

Comet.name
19P/Borrelly
Comet.image
Comet Borrelly Nucleus.jpg
Comet.caption
The nucleus of Comet Borrelly as seen by NASA's Deep Space 1 mission in 22 September 2001.
Comet.discoverer
Alphonse Borrelly
Comet.discovery_site
Marseille, France
Comet.discovery_date
28 December 1904
Comet.mpc_name
P/1904 Y2, P/1911 S1
Comet.epoch
9 August 2022 (JD 2459800.5)
Comet.perihelion
1.306 AU
Comet.aphelion
5.90 AU
Comet.semimajor
3.61 AU
Comet.eccentricity
0.6377
Comet.period
6.85 years
Comet.inclination
29.30°
Comet.Earth_moid
0.36 AU
Comet.albedo
0.022
Comet.mass
2 kg
Comet.M1
9.8

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Wikidata facts

Diameter
4.8
Mass
20
Orbital period
2502.1380
Image
Comet Borrelly Nucleus.jpg
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time of discovery or invention
1904-12-28
Commons category
Comet Borrelly
orbital inclination
29.31940
orbital eccentricity
0.6379197
provisional designation
1905 II
absolute magnitude
9.8
albedo
0.022
semi-major axis of an orbit
3.6069646
periapsis
1.3060110
apoapsis
5.9079183
longitude of ascending node
74.30244
argument of periapsis
351.86069
mean anomaly
311.5476702709439
time of periapsis
2459612.26226186
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Contents
  • Discovery
  • Exploration
  • Deep Space 1 flyby
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size:11px; float:right; margin:2px" |- bgcolor= style="font-size: smaller;" | colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|Perihelion distanceat recent epochs |- ! Epoch !! Perihelion(AU) |- | 2028 || 1.310 |- | 2022 || 1.306 |- | 2015 || 1.349 |- | 2008 || 1.355 |}

Comet Borrelly or '''Borrelly's Comet (official designation: 19P/Borrelly') is a comet with a period of 6.85 years that was visited by the Deep Space 1'' spacecraft in 2001. The comet last came to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 1 February 2022 and will next come to perihelion on 11 December 2028.

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