276P/Vorobjov
Sign in to save276P/Vorobjov (previously P/2012 T7 (Vorobjov)) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered on 15 October 2012 by Tomáš Vorobjov on three 120-s images taken remotely using the 0.81-m f/7 Ritchey-Chretien Schulman Telescope located at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter via the Sierra Stars Observatory Network in the course of a minor-planet search survey undertaken as part of the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) school campaigns. After posting on the Minor Planet Center's NEOCP webpage, other observers have commented on the object's cometary appearance. The discovery was announced by the M
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 4454.111149834631
- Image
- P-2012 T7 discovery sequence.gif
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- Commons category
- 276P/Vorobjov
- time of discovery or invention
- 2012-10-15
- provisional designation
- 276P/2012 T7
- absolute magnitude
- 13.5
- epoch
- February 14, 2019
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2693775116028968
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 5.297956836477733
- periapsis
- 3.870806407287806
- apoapsis
- 6.725107265667661
- orbital inclination
- 14.87477326667475
- longitude of ascending node
- 211.5982261846991
- argument of periapsis
- 200.4623034820213
- mean anomaly
- 187.1434289305254
- time of periapsis
- 2460667.17327923
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276P/Vorobjov (previously P/2012 T7 (Vorobjov)) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered on 15 October 2012 by Tomáš Vorobjov on three 120-s images taken remotely using the 0.81-m f/7 Ritchey-Chretien Schulman Telescope located at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter via the Sierra Stars Observatory Network in the course of a minor-planet search survey undertaken as part of the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) school campaigns. After posting on the Minor Planet Center's NEOCP webpage, other observers have commented on the object's cometary appearance. The discovery was announced by the Minor Planet Center on 18 October, three days after the discovery.
== Prediscovery ==
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