46P/Wirtanen
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size:11px; float:right; margin:2px" |- bgcolor= style="font-size: smaller;" | colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|Perihelion distanceat different epochs |- ! Epoch !! Perihelion(AU) |- | 1967 || 1.61 |- | 1974 || 1.26 |- | 1986 || 1.08 |- | 2013 || 1.05 |- | 2035 || 1.08 |- | 2046 || 1.22 |- | 2059 || 1.98 |- | 2095 || 2.01 |}
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 46P/Wirtanen
- Comet.image
- Comet 46P Wirtanen on 12 December 2018 (cropped).png
- Comet.caption
- Wirtanen at perihelion on 12 December 2018
- Comet.discoverer
- Carl A. Wirtanen
- Comet.discovery_site
- Lick Observatory
- Comet.discovery_date
- 17 January 1948
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1948 A1, P/1954 R2
- Comet.epoch
- 13 September 2023 (JD 2460200.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 75.89 years
- Comet.obs
- 7,527
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.055 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 5.127 AU