24P/Schaumasse
Sign in to saveComet Schaumasse is a Jupiter-family comet with an 8.2-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of three comets discovered by French astronomer, Alexandre Schaumasse. It last came to perihelion on 8 January 2026 and will next come to perihelion on 16 March 2034.
Key facts
- Comet.M2
- 15.6
- Comet.name
- 24P/Schaumasse
- Comet.image
- 24P 20251229.jpg
- Comet.caption
- Comet Schaumasse imaged on 29 December 2025
- Comet.discoverer
- Alexandre Schaumasse
- Comet.discovery_site
- Nice, France
- Comet.discovery_date
- 1 December 1911
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1911 X1, P/1919 U1
- Comet.observation_arc
- 66.52 years
- Comet.obs
- 1,549
- Comet.epoch
- 21 November 2025 (JD 2461000.5)
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.184 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 6.93 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 4.06 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.708
- Comet.period
- 8.18 years
- Comet.inclination
- 11.50°
- Comet.asc_node
- 78.27°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- near-Earth object
- Followed by
- 25D/Neujmin
- Follows
- 23P/Brorsen–Metcalf
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 2.6
- Orbital period
- 2982.523262937237
- Image
- Comète Schaumasse.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Alexandre Schaumasse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1911-12-01
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.7077109732097171
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.054994553756911
- provisional designation
- 1919 IV
- periapsis
- 1.185230411757505
- apoapsis
- 6.924758695756317
- orbital inclination
- 11.50628469325119
- absolute magnitude
- 14.3
- longitude of ascending node
- 78.35729321409282
- argument of periapsis
- 58.42912117882167
- mean anomaly
- 220.3354231413394
- time of periapsis
- 2461049.591248581
- epoch
- November 9, 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Observations
- Physical characteristics
- Notes
- References
- External links
Comet Schaumasse is a Jupiter-family comet with an 8.2-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of three comets discovered by French astronomer, Alexandre Schaumasse. It last came to perihelion on 8 January 2026 and will next come to perihelion on 16 March 2034.
==Observations== By the end of 1912 it was recognised as a short period comet estimated to return in 7.1 years, later recalculated as 8 years. The 1919 return was recovered by Gaston Fayet (Paris, France) as magnitude 10.5.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “24P/Schaumasse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.