36P/Whipple
Sign in to save36P/Whipple is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It is the lowest numbered Quasi-Hilda comet. It passed from Jupiter in June 1922.
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 36P/Whipple
- Comet.image
- 36P 2020-11-21 image ZTF-sso-455-zg-size-6.4arcmin.png
- Comet.discoverer
- Fred Lawrence Whipple
- Comet.discovery_date
- October 15, 1933
- Comet.designations
- 1926 VIII; 1933 IV; 1941 III; 1948 VI; 1955 VIII; 1963 II; 1970 XIV; 1978 VIII; 1986 XII; 1994 XXXII
- Comet.epoch
- March 6, 2006
- Comet.semimajor
- 4.165 AU
- Comet.perihelion
- 3.089 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 5.241 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.2583
- Comet.period
- 8.501 a
- Comet.inclination
- 9.9345°
- Comet.last_p
- May 31, 2020December 30, 2011July 6, 2003
- Comet.next_p
- 2028-Nov-04
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 4.56
- Orbital period
- 3104.307070514731
- Image
- 36P 2020-11-21 image ZTF-sso-455-zg-size-6.4arcmin.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Fred Lawrence Whipple
- site of astronomical discovery
- Harvard College Observatory
- time of discovery or invention
- 1933-10-15
- provisional designation
- 1933 IV
- absolute magnitude
- 10.5
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2582250337412331
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.164640307515967
- periapsis
- 3.089225923587557
- apoapsis
- 5.240054691444376
- orbital inclination
- 9.935343393601725
- longitude of ascending node
- 182.3912261042491
- argument of periapsis
- 201.9559736717388
- mean anomaly
- 216.4919150431557
- time of periapsis
- 2455927.9810077986
- epoch
- August 12, 2008
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36P/Whipple is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It is the lowest numbered Quasi-Hilda comet. It passed from Jupiter in June 1922.
The comet nucleus is estimated to be 4.5 kilometers in diameter or 5.1 kilometers. The rotational period was estimated to be about 40 hours.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “36P/Whipple” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.