42P/Neujmin
Sign in to save42P/Neujmin, also known as Neujmin 3, is a periodic comet 2 km in diameter. It will next come to perihelion on 14 January 2026 at magnitude 19.
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 42P/Neujmin
- Comet.discoverer
- Grigory Neujmin
- Comet.discovery_date
- August 2, 1929
- Comet.designations
- 1929 III; 1; 1993 XVI
- Comet.epoch
- March 6, 2006
- Comet.semimajor
- 4.858 AU
- Comet.perihelion
- 2.014 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 7.701 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.5854
- Comet.period
- 10.71 a
- Comet.inclination
- 3.9854°
- Comet.last_p
- April 8, 2015July 15, 2004
- Comet.next_p
- January 14, 2026
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 2.2
- Orbital period
- 3933.285115048261
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- discoverer or inventor
- Grigory Neujmin
- time of discovery or invention
- 1929-08-02
- provisional designation
- 1929 III
- absolute magnitude
- 13.2
- epoch
- December 24, 2015
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.5841747519155726
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.876460018192112
- periapsis
- 2.027755196838527
- apoapsis
- 7.725164839545697
- orbital inclination
- 3.984591946246174
- longitude of ascending node
- 150.279966816504
- argument of periapsis
- 147.120393793131
- mean anomaly
- 23.77772214832961
- time of periapsis
- 2457120.7095539006
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42P/Neujmin, also known as Neujmin 3, is a periodic comet 2 km in diameter. It will next come to perihelion on 14 January 2026 at magnitude 19.
This comet and 53P/Van Biesbroeck are fragments of a parent comet that split in March 1845.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “42P/Neujmin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.