19P/Borrelly
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{| 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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 4.8
- Mass
- 20
- Orbital period
- 2502.1380
- Image
- Comet Borrelly Nucleus.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Alphonse Borrelly
- time of discovery or invention
- 1904-12-28
- Commons category
- Comet Borrelly
- orbital inclination
- 29.31940
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.6379197
- site of astronomical discovery
- Marseille
- 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
- epoch
- March 2, 2021
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “19P/Borrelly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.