48P/Johnson
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Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- 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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- discoverer or inventor
- Ernest Leonard Johnson
- time of discovery or invention
- 1949-08-25
- provisional designation
- 1949d
- absolute magnitude
- 9.8
- epoch
- February 18, 2010
- 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 .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “48P/Johnson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.