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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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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 .