37P/Forbes
Sign in to save37P/Forbes is a periodic comet in the Solar System. The orbit of this comet passes close to the planet Jupiter however it orbit changes frequently. It was discovered on August 1, 1929, by Alexander F. I. Forbes in South Africa. The comet nucleus is estimated to be in diameter.
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 37P/Forbes
- Comet.image
- 37P 2018-05-27 NEOWISE image 3-color.png
- Comet.caption
- Infrared image of Comet Forbes taken by the NEOWISE spacecraft on 27 May 2018
- Comet.discoverer
- Alexander F. I. Forbes
- Comet.discovery_site
- Rosebank, South Africa
- Comet.discovery_date
- 1 August 1929
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1929 P1, P/1942 L1
- Comet.epoch
- 21 November 2025 (JD 2461000.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 96.28 years
- Comet.obs
- 2,487
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.618 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 5.305 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 3.462 AU
- Comet.period
- 6.44 years
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.53255
- Comet.inclination
- 8.948°
- Comet.asc_node
- 314.55°
- Comet.arg_peri
- 330.07°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 1.92
- Orbital period
- 2346.719430008127
- Image
- 37P 2018-05-27 NEOWISE image 3-color.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Alexander F. I. Forbes
- time of discovery or invention
- 1929-08-01
- provisional designation
- 1929 II
- absolute magnitude
- 11.5
- epoch
- March 28, 2017
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.5344761599834154
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.456011361402862
- periapsis
- 1.608855680101205
- apoapsis
- 5.30316704270452
- orbital inclination
- 8.962054270441827
- longitude of ascending node
- 314.6395769323095
- argument of periapsis
- 330.0004370065654
- mean anomaly
- 298.3083277973831
- time of periapsis
- 2458242.647349521
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37P/Forbes is a periodic comet in the Solar System. The orbit of this comet passes close to the planet Jupiter however it orbit changes frequently. It was discovered on August 1, 1929, by Alexander F. I. Forbes in South Africa. The comet nucleus is estimated to be in diameter.
A close approach to Jupiter in the year 2001 has changes its perihelion to 1.57 AU. Despite the small change, the comet brightness went down by a magnitude of 2.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “37P/Forbes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.