48P/Johnson

48P/Johnson is a periodic comet in the Solar System.

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Comet.name: 48P/Johnson
Comet.image: 48P 2005-07-18 Spitzer image Level-2-PBCD-MIPS-24um.jpg
Comet.caption: Infrared image of Comet Johnson taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope on 18 July 2005
Comet.discoverer: Ernest Leonard Johnson
Comet.discovery_date: 25 August 1949
Comet.mpc_name: P/1949 Q1, P/1956 P1
Comet.epoch: 28 April 2016 (JD 2457506.5)
Comet.observation_arc: 5,220 days (14.29 years)
Comet.obs: 1,612
Comet.perihelion: 2.006 AU
Comet.aphelion: 5.021 AU
Comet.semimajor: 3.514 AU
Comet.period: 6.587 years
Comet.eccentricity: 0.42897
Comet.inclination: 12.283°
Comet.asc_node: 111.46°
Comet.arg_peri: 214.69°
Comet.mean: 235.39°

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Diameter: 5.74
Orbital period: 2538.54842288906
Image: 48P 2018-08-21 image ZTF-sso-291-zr-fov-9.3arcmin.png

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time of discovery or invention: 1949-08-25
provisional designation: 1949d
absolute magnitude: 9.8
orbital eccentricity: 0.3678139209714429
semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.641872048101626
periapsis: 2.302340810413068
apoapsis: 4.981403285790184
orbital inclination: 13.66065688238793
longitude of ascending node: 117.2876041559334
argument of periapsis: 207.8320881617276
mean anomaly: 276.6162622434755
time of periapsis: 2455833.482377712

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48P/Johnson is a periodic comet in the Solar System.

The comet's nucleus is estimated to be approximately in diameter, according to Lamy, Fernandez, and Weaver. David C. Jewitt and Scott S. Sheppard, however, estimate the nucleus to have dimensions of .