56P/Slaughter–Burnham is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a period of 11.54 years. It is the second of two comets co-discovered by Robert Burnham Jr. and Charles D. Slaughter.
56P/Slaughter–Burnham is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a period of 11.54 years. It is the second of two comets co-discovered by Robert Burnham Jr. and Charles D. Slaughter.
== Observational history == It was discovered in 1959 by Charles D. Slaughter and Robert Burnham of the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona during a photographic survey. They spotted the comet, with a faint brightness of magnitude 16, on a plate exposed on 10 December 1958. By monitoring its movement over a series of consecutive days, Elizabeth Roemer was able to calculate its orbit, suggesting a perihelion date of 4 August 1958 and an orbital period of 11.18 years.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).