4P/Faye

{| 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

Article

5 sections

Contents

Observational history
Orbit
Physical characteristics
References
External links

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.