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Also known as 30P/Reinmuth 1, Comet Reinmut 1, Reinmut 1, 30P

Comet 30P/Reinmuth, also known as Comet Reinmuth 1, is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It was first discovered by Karl Reinmuth (Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Germany) on February 22, 1928.

Key facts

Comet.name
30P/Reinmuth
Comet.image
30P 2010-02-18 PTF ImageDownload-5-irsakuops-ptf-5f5c5ffb54-wpzq9---1.png
Comet.caption
The comet on 18 February 2010 by Palomar Transient Factory
Comet.discoverer
Karl Reinmuth
Comet.discovery_date
February 22, 1928
Comet.designations
1928 D1, 1934 V1
Comet.epoch
July 1, 2009 (2455013.5)
Comet.aphelion
5.664 AU
Comet.perihelion
1.884 AU
Comet.semimajor
3.774 AU
Comet.eccentricity
0.5008
Comet.period
7.33 yr
Comet.inclination
8.13°
Comet.last_p
2024-Aug-172017-Aug-19
Comet.next_p
2031-Nov-11

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Wikidata facts

Parent body
Sun
Diameter
7.8
Orbital period
2676.858422775526
Image
30P 2010-02-18 PTF ImageDownload-5-irsakuops-ptf-5f5c5ffb54-wpzq9---1.png
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time of discovery or invention
1928-02-22
discoverer or inventor
Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth
provisional designation
1928 I
absolute magnitude
13.7
orbital eccentricity
0.5021659272333574
semi-major axis of an orbit
3.772981278625547
periapsis
1.878318636410451
apoapsis
5.667643920840644
orbital inclination
8.12997898140844
longitude of ascending node
119.7278592428273
argument of periapsis
13.15940383501582
mean anomaly
185.3533306465268
time of periapsis
2457984.1233551903
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Encyclopedic overview

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Comet 30P/Reinmuth, also known as Comet Reinmuth 1, is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It was first discovered by Karl Reinmuth (Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Germany) on February 22, 1928.

Initial calculations of its orbit estimated a period of 25 years, but this was later revised to seven years, leading to speculation that it was the same comet as Comet Taylor, which had been lost since 1915. Further calculations by George van Biesbroeck concluded that they were different comets.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “30P/Reinmuth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.