51P/Harrington
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Key facts
- Comet.name
- 51P/Harrington
- Comet.discoverer
- Robert G. Harrington at Palomar Observatory
- Comet.discovery_date
- 14 August 1953
- Comet.epoch
- 2022-09-18(JD 2459840.5)
- Comet.semimajor
- 3.708 AU (a)
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.6925 AU (q)
- Comet.aphelion
- 5.724 AU (Q)
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.5436
- Comet.period
- 7.14 yr
- Comet.inclination
- 5.427°
- Comet.last_p
- 2022-Oct-0112 August 201518 June 2008
- Comet.next_p
- 2029-Nov-16
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 4.8
- Orbital period
- 2610.341793722303
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- discoverer or inventor
- Robert G. Harrington
- time of discovery or invention
- 1953-08-14
- site of astronomical discovery
- Palomar Observatory
- provisional designation
- 1953 VI
- absolute magnitude
- 18.6
- epoch
- June 21, 2017
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.5420451652003949
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.710216905850907
- periapsis
- 1.699111770189654
- apoapsis
- 5.721322041512161
- orbital inclination
- 5.423651904070583
- longitude of ascending node
- 83.71771047129802
- argument of periapsis
- 269.1635641515291
- mean anomaly
- 93.58618630108593
- time of periapsis
- 2457246.9112960645
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51P/Harrington is a periodic comet in the Solar System.
It was discovered by Robert George Harrington at Palomar Observatory on 14 August 1953 using the Schmidt telescope. It then had a brightness of magnitude 15. In October 1956 its orbit was affected by the planet Jupiter and on its next return in 1960 the brightness had fallen to magnitude 20. By 1980 it had slightly improved to magnitude 18. It has a period of 7.1 years.
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