4P/Faye
Sign in to save{| 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) |- | 1806 || 1.74 |- | 1843 || 1.69 |- | 1984 || 1.59 |- | 2102 || 1.51 |}
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 4P/Faye
- Comet.image
- Luciano Tinelli- 4P Faye.jpg
- Comet.caption
- Faye's Comet as imaged by Luciano Tinelli on 15 November 2021
- Comet.discoverer
- Hervé Faye
- Comet.discovery_site
- Royal Observatory, France
- Comet.discovery_date
- 23 November 1843
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1843 W1, P/1850 W1
- Comet.epoch
- 25 February 2023 (JD 2460000.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 164.58 years
- Comet.obs
- 7,603
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.619 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 6.034 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 3.827 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.57683
- Comet.period
- 7.48 years
- Comet.inclination
- 8.009°
- Comet.asc_node
- 192.92°
- Comet.arg_peri
- 207.05°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 3.54
- Orbital period
- 2703.279009392832
- Image
- Luciano Tinelli- 4P Faye.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1843-11-23
- discoverer or inventor
- Hervé Faye
- periapsis date (DEPRECATED)
- 2014-05-29
- Commons category
- 4P/Faye
- provisional designation
- 1873 III
- absolute magnitude
- 11.0
- apoapsis
- 6.01749514485855
- time of periapsis
- 2459463.191592441
- epoch
- February 8, 2019
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.5844825158570417
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.797766828801174
- periapsis
- 1.578038518065045
- orbital inclination
- 8.15995332203782
- longitude of ascending node
- 194.800053436924
- argument of periapsis
- 205.9925172698771
- mean anomaly
- 234.7265923411809
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Observational history
- Orbit
- Physical characteristics
- References
- External links
{| 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) |- | 1806 || 1.74 |- | 1843 || 1.69 |- | 1984 || 1.59 |- | 2102 || 1.51 |}
4P/Faye (also known as '''Faye's Comet or Comet Faye''') is a Jupiter-family comet discovered in November 1843 by Hervé Faye at the Royal Observatory in Paris. Its most recent perihelion occurred on 8 September 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “4P/Faye” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.